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A teleoperation tool that allows to interact with the remote environment in a more comfortable and flexible way is presented in this chapter. Working over a classical teleoperation environment, the goal is to reach a higher level of abstraction in the user commands. The tool allows the operator to interact with the remote environment through natural language recognition. This system is able to interpret and execute the commands formulated by the operator in natural language, according to the elements present in the remote environment. An error feedback module has been designed in order to take into account the on-line correcting information expressed by the operator during the execution of a task in the remote environment. The proposed voice assistance tool has been designed as a module in a novel teleoperation architecture, which allows to integrate multiple assistance tools.
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Reinoso, O., Fernández, C., Ñeco, R. (2007). User Voice Assistance Tool for Teleoperation. In: Ferre, M., Buss, M., Aracil, R., Melchiorri, C., Balaguer, C. (eds) Advances in Telerobotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71364-7_8
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