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Distributed consensus for interaction between humans and mobile robot swarms

Giusti, A.
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Nagi, J.
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Gambardella, L.
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2012
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

The purpose of the demonstrator is to present a novel system for gesture-based interaction between humans and a swarm of mobile robots. The human interacts with the swarm by showing hand gestures using an orange glove. Following initial hand glove detection, the robots move to adapt their positions and viewpoints. The purpose is to improve individual sensing performance and maximize the gesture information mutually gathered by the swarm as a whole. Using multi-hop message relaying, robots spread their opinions and the associated confidence about the issued hand gesture throughout the swarm. To let the robots in the swarm integrate and weight the different opinions, we developed a distributed consensus protocol. When a robot has gathered enough evidence, it takes a decision for the hand gesture, and sends it into the swarm. Different decisions compete with each other. The one assessed with the highest confidence eventually wins. When consensus is reached about the hand gesture, the swarm acts accordingly, for example by moving to a location, or splitting into groups. The working of the system is shown and explained in the video accessible at the following address:http://www.idsia.ch/~gianni/SwarmRobotics/aamasdemo.zip.

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conference paper not in proceedings
Author(s)
Giusti, A.
Nagi, J.
Gambardella, L.
Di Caro, G. A.
Date Issued

2012

Subjects

Gesture recognition

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Distributed consensus

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Swarm robotics

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NCCR-ROBOTICS  
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Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

Valencia, Spain

June 4-8, 2012

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April 30, 2012
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