Teammates

My research investigates a subset of problems within a larger context: the goal of robots operating autonomously within real world environments. How they interact with humans and other robots while doing this has also been a focus of my research. While my demonstration-feedback paradigm explores teacher-learner interactions, during my graduate work I also investigated teammate-peer interactions. Through participation in two projects at Carnegie Mellon, I explored the area of human-robot and robot-robot teammate interactions. The first was Segway Soccer, a league within Robocup robot soccer, in which teams of humans and robots organize and cooperate together in soccer competition against other human-robot teams [3]. The second was the Boeing Treasure Hunt project, in which heterogeneous teams of human and a variety of robots coordinate together in pursuit of a common task goal [1,2].

Referreed Conference Publications

[1]   M. B. Dias, B. Kannan, B. Browning, E. G. Jones, B. Argall, M. F. Dias, M. B. Zinck, M. Veloso and A. Stentz. Sliding Autonomy for Peer-to-Peer Robot Teams. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '08), Baden Baden, Germany, July 2008.   [pdf]

[2]   E. G. Jones, B. Browning, M. B. Dias, B. Argall, M. Veloso and A. Stentz. Dynamically Formed Heterogeneous Robot Teams Performing Tightly-Coordinated Tasks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '06), Orlando, Florida, May 2006. [pdf]

[3]   B. Argall, Y. Gu, B. Browning, and M. Veloso. The First Segway Soccer Experience: Towards Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teams. In Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interactions (HRI '06), Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2006.    [pdf]
(Also Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report, CMU-CS-05-161, 2005.   [pdf])

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