Challenges and Results of Multi-Robot and Multi-Human Systems

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Speaker: Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon)

We envision humans coexisting with robots - such vision offers many technical challenges but also opportunities for robot development. In this talk, I overview the problems and results in multi-robot robot perception, cognition, communication, and action. I illustrate planning and coordination algorithms with our robot soccer teams. I then introduce the opportunities for robots to observe and learn from implicit or explicit guidance from humans. I present a recently successful autonomous indoor robot, CoBot, that acts as a visitor's companion. CoBot includes a symbiotic interaction approach to capture complementary limitations and expertise of humans and robots. The talk concludes with a discussion of the main interesting research questions in multi-robot, multi-human environments.