2019 – TDP – SinfonIA Pepper Team – RoboCup@Home – Social Standard Platform

In this paper we introduce the SinfonIA Pepper Team for RoboCup Social Standard Platform League (SSPL). Our team is a joint effort between several Colombian institutions whose main objective is to lead the development of robotics and artificial intelligence in our country, so that new applications and technologies are introduced in people’s daily life. Our current research interest is to improve the interaction between robots and humans by a) allowing the robots to learn new instructions in a natural way using multimodal inputs and b) developing an emotion recognition system that the robots can use to drive its interaction with the humans. In this paper, we also show our efforts implementing a shortened version of the Cocktail Party challenge from previous years, using a Pepper robot that demonstrates speech interaction, person recognition, object detection and task planning capabilities.