An Approach to Team Programming with Markup for Operator Interaction

This paper presents a team plan specification language that combines work in the creation of generic team plans and design of intelligent interfaces. Two motivations the language are (1) to combine inter-agent cooperation and operator interaction of complex behaviors into a single plan, and (2) to separate plan design and UI design such that they are created by application domain experts and human interaction experts, respectively. The result is a generic language for multi-robot plans that defines tasks to be performed, interactions for maintaining situational awareness, and mixed initiative reactions to operator workload.

Authors

• Nathan Brooks Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Ewart de Visser Perceptronics Solutions, Inc. , USA
• Timur Chabuk Perceptronics Solutions, Inc. , USA
• Elan Freedy Perceptronics Solutions, Inc. , USA
• Paul Scerri

Keywords

• Robotic agent languages and middleware for robot systems
• Intelligence for human-robot interaction
• Robot teams
• multi-robot systems