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There is current interest in creating human-robot teams in which a human operator is in its own conveyance teaming up with several autonomous teammates. In this work we focus on human-robot teamwork in the marine environment as it is challenging and can serve as a surrogate for other environments. Marine elements such as wind speed, air temperature, water, obstacles, and ambient noise can have drastic implications for team performance. Our goal is to create a human-robot system that can join many humans and many robots together to cooperatively perform tasks in such challenging environments. In this paper, we present our human-robot speech dialog system and compare participant responses to having human versus autonomous vehicle teammates escorting and holding station at locations of interest.
This work was supported by Battelle.
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The authors would like to acknowledge Alon Yaari for his technical support and the MIT Sailing Pavilion staff for their professionalism and support in designing and maintaining our safety protocols. We thank Paul Robinette and Alan Wagner for feedback and guidance throughout this work.
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Novitzky, M., Dougherty, H.R.R., Benjamin, M.R. (2016). A Human-Robot Speech Interface for an Autonomous Marine Teammate. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_50
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