Communicating with Teams of Cooperative Robots

Abstract

The authors are designing and implementing a multi-modal interface to a team of dynamically autonomous robots. For this interface, they have elected to use natural language and gesture. Gestures can be either natural gestures perceived by a vision system installed on the robot, or they can be made by using a stylus on a Personal Digital Assistant. In this paper,they describe the integrated modes of input and one of the theoretical constructs that they use to facilitate cooperation and collaboration among members of a team of robots. An integrated context and dialog processing component that incorporates knowledge of spatial relations enables cooperative activity between the multiple agents, both human and robotic.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA434962

Entities

People

  • A. C. Schultz
  • D. Brock
  • D. Perzanowski
  • E. Marsh
  • G. Trafton
  • M. Abramson
  • M. Bugajska
  • M. Skubic
  • W. Adams

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Cooperation
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages
  • Object Recognition
  • Personal Digital Assistants
  • Recognition
  • Robots
  • Teamwork

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction