Impact of Human Communication in a Multi-teacher, Multi-robot Learning by Demonstration System.
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Author(s)
Martins, MF
Demiris, Y
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
A wide range of architectures have been proposed within the areas of learning by demonstration and multi-robot coordination. These areas share a common issue: how humans and robots share information and knowledge among themselves. This paper analyses the impact of communication between human teachers during simultaneous demonstration of task execution in the novel Multi-robot Learning by Demonstration domain, using the MRLbD architecture. The performance is analysed in terms of time to task completion, as well as the quality of the multi-robot joint action plans. Participants with different levels of skills taught real robots solutions for a furniture moving task through teleoperation. The experimental results provided evidence that explicit communication between teachers does not necessarily reduce the time to complete a task, but contributes to the synchronisation of manoeuvres, thus enhancing the quality of the joint action plans generated by the MRLbD architecture.
Date Issued
2010-05
Citation
2010
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© 2010 The Authors
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10.01.14 KB. Ok to add conference paper to spiral, authors hold copyright
Identifier
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bradknox/AAMAS-ALIHT/
Source
AAMAS'10 Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers
Source Place
Toronto, Canada
Publication Status
Published
Publisher URL
Start Date
2010-05-10
Finish Date
2010-05-14
Coverage Spatial
Toronto, Canada