ITR: Coordination of Heterogeneous Teams\(Humans, Agents, Robots\) for Emergency Response

大规模协调任务在危险、不确定和时间紧张的环境中变得越来越重要，例如救援行动和灾害响应。在这样的环境中，人类救援人员必须在压力下，在不完整和动态的信息下迅速做出决定，这可能挽救生命，也可能使生命处于危险之中。拟议的多学科研究建立在三个关键进展/技术思想之上。1)自主代理团队：网络代理、机器人和人（carp）是由大量这些实体组成的混合团队，分布在空间和时间上，能力和角色各不相同。(2)协作控制范式有助于共享A)共同目标，b)沟通和行动的主动性，c)协调一致的小组活动的责任，d)关于环境、任务和情况的信息，以及e)协助克服鲤鱼小组各种成员（无论是人、机器人还是网络代理）的障碍。(3)在大规模、不确定的协调领域中，团队形成和协调的主要挑战包括不同主体、团队和组织之间的互操作性，以及团队内部相互适应以及优先级和角色变化的共同适应。成功部署CARP技术的影响将使机器人超越少数行业的利基角色；相反，它们将被整合到更大的人类社会和工作场所的信息系统中。紧急反应小组是一个早期的高回报测试领域，因为机器人可以去通常对人类有危险的地方，从而拯救救援人员和受害者的生命。

Large-scale coordination tasks are becoming increasingly important in hazardous, uncertain, and time-stressed environments such as rescue operations and disaster response. In such environments, human rescuers must rapidly make decisions while under stress and with incomplete and dynamic information, that may save or put lives at risk. The proposed multidisciplinary research is founded on three key advances/technical ideas. 1) Teams of Autonomous Agents: Cyber Agents, Robots and People (CARPs) are hybrid teams that consist of large number of these entities, distributed in space and time and varying in capability and role. (2) A cooperative control paradigm facilitates the sharing of a) common goals, b) initiatives for communication and action, c) responsibilities for coherent group activity, d) information on the environment, mission, and situation, and e) assistance to overcoming barriers for various members of CARP groups whether human, robot or cyber-agent. (3) The key challenges for team formation and coordination in large-scale, uncertain coordination domains include ad hoc interoperability across different agents, teams and organizations that are brought together "as is", and co-adaptation to each other and to changing priorities and roles within the team. The impact of having CARP technology successfully deployed will allow robots to advance beyond niche roles in a handful of industries; instead they will be integrated into the larger society of humans and information systems in the workplace. Emergency response teams are an early high-payoff test domain as robots can go places normally dangerous to humans, thus saving rescuers' and victims' lives.