Vietnamese Service Robot Based on Artificial
Intelligence
Nguyen Tran Thanh Phong, Luong Huu Thanh Nam, and Nguyen Truong Thinh
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Email: nttphong2412@gmail.com, luonghuuthanhnam5@gmail.com, thinhnt@hcmute.edu.vn
Abstract—Service robot have been designed and developed
for different objectives and requirements. Since robotic
revolution, Vietnam is one of the most influenced among
South-east Asia countries in developing artificial intelligence.
People believe that robot will replace all blue-collars in
almost company, even hospital and school in next few
decades, therefore developers are trying to improve natural
language interaction between human and robot, especially
helping new vision for Vietnamese robotics. We have built a
robot application that capable of understand Vietnamese
natural language, there are four tasks which was mentioned
solving the problems, even more AI method. Deep learning,
on the other hand, is a sub-field of machine learning. In this
paper, with these algorithms, artificial intelligent supported
is much complex, people can communicate naturally with
robot, not only English but also Vietnamese at well. In this
paper, we will introduce the specification and intelligent
interaction processing in naturally Vietnamese.
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Index Terms—service robot, artificial intelligence, natural
language processing
I. INTRODUCTION
Robot is often regarded as the biggest achievement of
modern engineering. The modern robotics began as early
as in the 1920s. Nearly a decade has gone by; the robotics
field has accomplished tremendous improvement.
Nowadays, industrial robots take part in the
manufacturing; replace manual labors in fields that
require extreme precision. Robots are even used in space
exploring by scientists. Service robots recent attract a lot
of attention from the public. Integrating with artificial
intelligence of computer science, modern service robots
has great potential as they are capable of perform many
sophisticate works of the human. There is no doubt that,
service robots are the prominent field in the near future.
Thus, this paper is focused on Human Robot Interaction
based on Artificial Intelligence. The specific target for
this paper is a humanoid robot with two arms ad an
animated face that is capable of expressing emotions. Its
main purpose is to serve as a receptionist robot, in which
robot main task range from informing customer on the
center’s courses, employee and teachers, thus providing
users with different necessary task. [1]
The field of service robot has shown its potential in its
near future, and currently attracting more researchers and
technical companies more than ever. Many governments
around the world also realize the potential of the field.
Vietnamese government has funded many programs that
their main objective is to encourage the use of robot in
educational environment. It is expected that when
children encountering more with robot, they will show
curious and grow their interest in the technology field.
Not only education benefits from service robot. In many
other place in the world, service robots are also put into
operation in boring, repeated task or dangerous
environment. Although the topic in controversial, but it is
certain that more and more service will be in operation in
the near future. However, the interaction between human
and robot pose some problem. The main issue is that
humans hesitate when interacting with robot. From the
psychological point of view, the main cause for this is
that most people don’t feel comfortable interacting with
robot, they feel that most robot is not friendly toward
them. The main key here is, beside its main functionality,
service robots also have to be seen as a friendly, human-
like being in order to attract their users. This also is the
main objective of me and other teams working on the
same project. With the use of artificial intelligence, my
goal to create a robot application that capable of
understand natural language and further contribute to the
development of Vietnamese robotics.
Many governments around the world also realize the
potential of the field. Beside the US and Japan – who are
notoriously interested in the service robot field,
Vietnamese government also took action. Vietnamese
government has funded many programs that their main
objective is to encourage the use of robot in educational
environment. It is expected that when children
encountering more with robot, they will show curious and
grow their interest in the technology field. Not only
education benefits from service robot. In many other
places in the world, service robots are also put into
operation in boring, repeated task or dangerous
environment. Although the topic in controversial, but it is
certain that more and more service will be in operation in
the near future.
Fig. 1 shows the service robot in this paper. The robot
possesses 2 arms that can perform many different
gestures as the robot interacting with its clients. To move
around, the robot relies on a wheeled platform which is
controlled by embedded microcontroller and the platform
controller components. The platform can perform basic
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International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research Vol. 9, No. 5, May 2020
© 2020 Int. J. Mech. Eng. Rob. Res
doi: 10.18178/ijmerr.9.5.701-708
Manuscript received July 5, 2019; revised April 1, 2020.