Jeffrey Bradshaw
Human-Agent-Robotic Teamwork

*CANCLED*
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Building 3 Auditorium - 3:30 PM
(Refreshments at 3:00 PM)

In contrast to significant early research that focused almost exclusively simply on how to increase the autonomy of systems, much of current research seeks to understand and satisfy requirements for the basic aspects of joint activity as part of human-robotic teamwork. Specific approaches to such teamwork have been explored by researchers, albeit in many forms and with somewhat divergent perspectives. For example, research communities have formed around the topics of intelligent assistant systems, adjustable autonomy, mixed-initiative systems, and collaboration theory.

Our own approach is based on a theory of joint activity based on careful observation of human collaboration, and the KAoS policy and domain services framework, which has been applied in a wide variety of military, space, and commercial applications. KAoS leverages the efficient and semantically-rich Web Ontology Language (OWL) as the basis of policy representation, and includes a graphical user interface that uses a natural-language interface to hide the complexities of OWL from the user.

I will discuss recent results of field exercises with mixed human-robot teams in port reconnaissance scenarios that successfully demonstrated how human initiative and robot autonomy can be seamlessly blended and dynamically adjusted to provide coordinated and effective joint performance while reducing the demand on human operators.

My bio is at http://www.ihmc.us/users/jbradshaw

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