Spatial dialog for space system autonomy

  • Authors:
  • Scott Green;Scott Richardson;Vadim Slavin;Randy Stiles

  • Affiliations:
  • Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Advanced Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA;Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Advanced Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA;Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Advanced Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA;Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Advanced Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Future space operations will increasingly demand cooperation between humans and autonomous space systems such as robots, observer satellites, and distributed components. Human team members use a combination of gestures, gaze, posture, deictic references and speech to communicate effectively. When a human team collaborates on a given task, they discuss the task, create a plan and then review this plan prior to execution to ensure success. This is exactly the process we envision for effective human-autonomous agent collaborative teamwork. Visual spatial information is a common reference for increased shared situation awareness between humans and autonomous systems. We use a spatial dialog approach to enable multiple humans to naturally and effectively communicate and work with multiple autonomous space systems. With this in mind, we have created a prototype spatial dialog system to support teamwork between humans and autonomous robotic agents. We combine augmented reality gesture interaction and visualization with speech to realize a spatial dialog capability. This paper describes our prototype, general approach, and related issues for team-oriented spatial dialog interaction with autonomous space systems.