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We are developing an autonomous and decentralized robot system ACTRESS. There are two classes of humans who deal with ACTRESS. One is the developer who develops robotic agents of the system, and the other is the operator who runs the system for specific tasks. We have developed a human interface system for the multi-agent robotic system to be used in both development and run-time environments.
The paper discusses communication between operators and agents which is essential to realize the human interface system which lets the operator monitor the system and give or get some information. In ACTRESS, an agent cooperates with other agents using wired and wireless communication systems. Likewise, the human operator communicates with the agents using the same communication systems. He also uses communication to monitor the system. However, in ACTRESS, communication bandwidth is limited. Therefore, the communication of monitoring must not degrade the performance of the communication in the system. We discuss efficient communication to monitor the behavior of agents. And we modeled and evaluated the amount of communication and information for various communication types. It is found that eavesdropping message exchange among agents will reduce necessary communication for the human operator and ease communication traffic. The human operator can make efficient monitoring with the agents using both explicit communication and eavesdropped messages.
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Suzuki, T. et al. (1994). A Human Interface for Interacting with and Monitoring the Multi-Agent Robotic System. In: Asama, H., Fukuda, T., Arai, T., Endo, I. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68275-2_6
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