A COMPARISON OF HUMAN AND MARKET-BASED ROBOT TASK PLANNERS
Guido Zarrella, Robert Gaimari, Bradley Goodman
2007
Abstract
Urban search and rescue, reconnaissance, manufacturing, and team sports are all problem domains requiring multiple agents that are able to collaborate intelligently to achieve a team goal. In these domains task planning and assignment can be challenging to robots and humans alike. In this paper we introduce a market-based distributed task planning algorithm that has been adapted for heterogeneous, tightly coordinated robots in domains with time deadlines. We also report the results of our experiments comparing the robots' decisions with the decisions produced by ten teams of humans performing an identical search and rescue task. The outcome provides insight into the types of problems for which information technology can add value by providing decision support for human problem solvers.
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Zarrella G., Gaimari R. and Goodman B. (2007). A COMPARISON OF HUMAN AND MARKET-BASED ROBOT TASK PLANNERS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-972-8865-82-5, pages 149-154. DOI: 10.5220/0001631701490154
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@conference{icinco07,
author={Guido Zarrella and Robert Gaimari and Bradley Goodman},
title={A COMPARISON OF HUMAN AND MARKET-BASED ROBOT TASK PLANNERS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2007},
pages={149-154},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001631701490154},
isbn={978-972-8865-82-5},
}
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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - A COMPARISON OF HUMAN AND MARKET-BASED ROBOT TASK PLANNERS
SN - 978-972-8865-82-5
AU - Zarrella G.
AU - Gaimari R.
AU - Goodman B.
PY - 2007
SP - 149
EP - 154
DO - 10.5220/0001631701490154