Agent Mobility in Human Robot Interaction

  • Nguyen, To Dong (Intelligent Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Oh, Sang-Rok (Intelligent Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • You, Bum-Jae (Intelligent Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2005.07.18

Abstract

In network human-robot interaction, human can access services of a robot system through the network The communication is done by interacting with the distributed sensors via voice, gestures or by using user network access device such as computer, PDA. The service organization and exploration is very important for this distributed system. In this paper we propose a new agent-based framework to integrate partners of this distributed system together and help users to explore the service effectively without complicated configuration. Our system consists of several robots. users and distributed sensors. These partners are connected in a decentralized but centralized control system using agent-based technology. Several experiments are conducted successfully using our framework The experiments show that this framework is good in term of increasing the availability of the system, reducing the time users and robots needs to connect to the network at the same time. The framework also provides some coordination methods for the human robot interaction system.

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