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This paper describes an approach to integrating a human into a team of robots through a dialogue-based planning assistant. We describe how the Rochester Interactive Planning System (TRIPS) is able to recognize and translate a user’s intentions into collaborative problem solving acts. The user interacts naturally through language and avoids complex machine interfaces as TRIPS manages the appropriate lower level robotic commands and semantics. The system acts as a mediator to the user, managing all coordination and agent communication for a vast number of robots that would normally overwhelm a single user.
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Chambers, N., Allen, J., Galescu, L., Jung, H. (2005). A Dialogue-Based Approach to Multi-Robot Team Control. In: Parker, L.E., Schneider, F.E., Schultz, A.C. (eds) Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata Volume III. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3389-3_21
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