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Human-Robot Interaction Through Mixed-Initiative Planning for Rescue and Search Rovers

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AI*IA 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2005)

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We present an approach to human-robot interaction in Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) domains based on reactive mixed-initiative planning. A model-based executive monitoring system is used to coordinate the operator’s interventions and the concurrent activities of a rescue rover. In this setting, the user’s and the robot’s activities are coordinated by a continuos reactive planning process. We show the advantages of this approach for both the operator situation awareness and human-robot interaction during rescue missions. We present the implementation of the control architecture on a robotic system (DORO) providing some experimental results obtained from testing in rescue arenas.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”,  

    Alberto Finzi

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università degli Studi di Roma TRE,  

    Andrea Orlandini

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  1. Research Center on Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI) Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication (DISCo), University of Milan, Bicocca viale Sarca, 336, 20126, Milan, (Italy)

    Stefania Bandini

  2. CSAI - Complex Systems & Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, University of Milano–Bicocca,  

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Finzi, A., Orlandini, A. (2005). Human-Robot Interaction Through Mixed-Initiative Planning for Rescue and Search Rovers. In: Bandini, S., Manzoni, S. (eds) AI*IA 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3673. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558590_49

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