Multi-agent interface architecture for human-robot cooperation

One of the important factors required to realize personal robots is mutual cooperation between humans and robots. To support human cooperative work based on asynchronous communication, the authors had developed a groupware toolkit called Michele. They propose a multi-agent interface architecture called RT-Michele. A prototype of RT-Michele was implemented, and autonomous mobile robots were developed. RT-Michele was applied to office automation, where it provided not only asynchronous communication, but also real-time interactive communication for cooperative work among humans and mobile robots