MULTIMODAL INTERACTION FOR MOBILE ROBOT GUIDANCE Giancarlo Iannizzotto, Pietro Lanzafame, Francesco La Rosa and Carlo Costanzo Visilab - Faculty of Engineering University of Messina Messina, Italy email {ianni, planzafame, flarosa, ccostanzo}@visilab.unime.it ABSTRACT Human-robot interaction is a very important issue for au- tonomous robots, in particular when the targeted environ- ment is more general than the strictly constrained, fully- controlled factory automation. Modern robots are basically computers equipped with complex actuators and sensing devices thus their native communication paradigm can be described in terms of tokens and numeric data and per- formed through a keyboard and a monitor or similar de- vices. We introduce multimodal human-computer interface and robot guidance platform allowing a human user to com- municate with a robot, associate visual tags and spoken …