A Research Platform for Multi-Robot Dialogue with Humans
This work addresses the problem of human-robot communication in multi-robot systems, but it is incremental as it builds on existing tools for speech recognition and dialogue management.
The paper introduces a research platform enabling spoken dialogue interaction with multiple robots, demonstrated through a MultiBot scenario where users issue verbal commands to ground and aerial robots for tasks like search and navigation.
This paper presents a research platform that supports spoken dialogue interaction with multiple robots. The demonstration showcases our crafted MultiBot testing scenario in which users can verbally issue search, navigate, and follow instructions to two robotic teammates: a simulated ground robot and an aerial robot. This flexible language and robotic platform takes advantage of existing tools for speech recognition and dialogue management that are compatible with new domains, and implements an inter-agent communication protocol (tactical behavior specification), where verbal instructions are encoded for tasks assigned to the appropriate robot.