Title :
Using the Behavior Markup Language for human-robot interaction
Author :
Holroyd, Aaron ; Rich, Charles
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Worcester Polytech. Inst., Worcester, MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a Behavior Markup Language (BML) realizer that we developed for use in our research on human-robot interaction. Existing BML realizers used with virtual agents are based on fixed-timing algorithms and because of that are not suitable for robotic applications. Our realizer uses an event-driven architecture, based on Petri nets, to guarantee the specified synchronization constraints in the presence of unpredictable variability in robot control systems. Our implementation is robot independent, open source and uses the Robot Operating System (ROS).
Keywords :
Petri nets; control engineering computing; human-robot interaction; hypermedia markup languages; multi-agent systems; BML; Petri nets; ROS; behavior markup language; event driven architecture; fixed timing algorithms; human-robot interaction; robot control systems; robot operating system; robotic applications; synchronization constraints; Animation; Broadcasting; Markup languages; Robots; Schedules; Speech; Synchronization; BML; Event-Driven; Petri Net; ROS; Realizer; Robots;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2012 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4503-1063-5
Electronic_ISBN :
2167-2121
