Multi-agent robotic interaction

利用机器人技术的巨大进步取决于机器人与周围其他系统和/或人类之间的互动。我们已经确定这种互动是限制近期未来进步的关键问题。作为一个社会，有伟大的机器人技术在手或几乎成熟。我们所缺乏的是良好的正式工具和基础，让我们将不同类型的机器人相互联系起来，以构建更强大的异构系统，或者让人类和机器人一起工作，让人类能够有效地、毫不费力地利用自动化辅助。 这类似于20世纪70年代计算机网络所面临的挑战，这是通过互联网的部署来解决的，但不包括人类和机器的多样化集合，使挑战更加深刻。

Taking advantage of huge recent advances in robotics depends on interaction between a robot, and either the other systems around it, and/or the humans employing it. We have identified this interaction as a key problem that limits future progress in the near term. As a society, have great robotics technologies on hand or almost mature. What we lack are good formal tools and foundations that let us link diverse types robots to one another to build more capable heterogeneous systems, or let humans and robots work together to allow the human to efficiently and effortlessly make use of automated assistance. This is akin to challenge faced by computer networks in the 1970s, which was solved via the deployment of the Internet, but not the diverse collection includes both humans and machines, making the challenge much more profound.