The DEFACTO system for human omnipresence to coordinate agent teams: the future of disaster response

Authors:
Nathan Schurr;J. Marecki;N. Kasinadhuni;M. Tambe;J. P. Lewis;Paul Scerri
Affiliations:
University of Southern California;University of Southern California;University of Southern California;University of Southern California;University of Southern California;Carnegie Mellon University
Venue:
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Enabling interactions of agent-teams and humans is a critical area of research, with encouraging progress in the past few years. However, previous work suffers from three key limitations: (i) limited human situational awareness, reducing human effectiveness in directing agent teams, (ii) the agent team's rigid interaction strategies that limit team performance, and (iii) lack of formal tools to analyze the impact of such interaction strategies. This paper presents a software prototype called DEFACTO (Demonstrating Effective Flexible Agent Coordination of Teams through Omnipresence). DEFACTO is based on a software proxy architecture and 3D visualization system, which addresses the three limitations mentioned above.