Human computer interaction based on a multi-agent system

Our human-computer interaction must be designed to use a multi-agent system. Indeed, this interface is a part of a global system which is a software architecture for robots control. The aim is to ease the designer, the user and the operator task, from mission specification to mission execution. The interaction software assists the human operator. In addition, our methodology is generic and can be more easily applied to any process control and application using a multi-agent system. This involves the design of agent classes with their specialized graphical interfaces; the specification of agents from the easier interface; (a sensor agent cannot be specified in the same way as a strategy agent); and the control of a process, by choosing of the best representation of these agents. Thus our system must not only manage agents, but also builds agents (off and on line). To design agents, we propose a structure for the implementation based on an object-oriented conception; for the same reason, we have chosen the graphical tool Stk. The first experiments use our minirobot Khepera for obstacles avoidance missions