ALLIANCE is a software architecture that facilitates the fault tolerant cooperative control of
teams of heterogeneous mobile robots performing missions composed of loosely coupled …

Whether in groups of humans or groups of computer agents, collaboration is most effective
between individuals who have the ability to coordinate on a joint strategy for collective …

Research into teamwork in autonomous robots is quickly gaining significant interest,
motivated by future applications of multi-robot teams. A key challenge is to automate the …

As robots evolve into an integral part of the human ecosystem, humans and robots will be
involved in a multitude of collaborative tasks that require complex coordination and …

Finally, we present a demonstration of our system for collaborative execution of a
hierarchical object manipulation task by a robot-human team. Our humanoid robot is able to …

In many missions, multiple robots need to cooperate to complete tasks. The workflow of
these multi-robot tasks involves forming coalitions of robots, assigning them to available …

Socially intelligent artificial agents and robots are anticipated to become ubiquitous in home,
work, and military environments. With the addition of such agents to human teams it is …

The brief history of human-robot teams can be traced through the changing perspective of a
robot's role within the team, which has evolved from being treated as a tool to a recent shift …

Collaborative robots are machines that work hand in hand with humans; or as the name
suggests, collaborate with them in a specific workspace. These robots are not enclosed in …