Human-robot collaboration may fail due to conflicts in beliefs or plans between cooperating partners, or due to robot errors. Dialogue is an intuitive way to resolve such conflicts due to miscommunication. The research demonstrated here explores the notion of using argumentation-based dialogue for human-robot interaction. The demonstration presents a proof-of-concept prototype of a logic-based ...

Human-robot collaboration may fail due to conflicts in beliefs or plans between cooperating partners, or due to robot errors. Dialogue is an intuitive way to resolve such conflicts due to miscommunication. The research demonstrated here explores the notion of using argumentation-based dialogue for human-robot interaction. The demonstration presents a proof-of-concept prototype of a logic-based ...

One important aspect of research in multi-robot team applications focuses on integrating humans in the control loop to perform collaborative tasks. Human operators are expected to assume many different roles in these systems. So far, the research in this domain mainly considers situations where tasks are independent from one another. In contrast, the work demonstrated here describes a methodolo...

Service robots are envisioned to have an increasing influence on our lives and to support us on a daily basis. From a truly effective and personalized robot, we expect the ability to learn our preferences concerning the requested tasks. Such preferences, however, are often user-dependent so that predefined strategies only match a subset of all users. In this work, we address the problem of tail...

We present and discuss four important yet underserved research questions critical to the future of sharedenvironment human-robot collaboration. We begin with a brief survey of research surrounding individual components required for a complete collaborative robot control system, discussing the current state of the art in Learning from Demonstration, active learning, adaptive planning systems, an...

This paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO)-inspired multi-robot search application based on an innovative software system for collaborative robotic applications. The system has a multi-layer architecture which provides lowand high-level interfaces to the robots, resource (robots) management, security policies and concurrent robot access. The main result is the successful testing of...