Brennan Sellner

TL;DR: Valerie the roboceptionist is the most recent addition to Carnegie Mellon's social robots project, and it is found that many visitors continue to interact with the robot on a daily basis, but that few of the individual interactions last for more than 30 seconds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the issues involved in adapting Sliding Autonomy concepts to coordinated multiagent teams, where remote human operators have the ability to join, or leave, the team at will to assist the autonomous agents with their tasks (or aspects of their tasks).

TL;DR: In the first year of the AAAI Robot Challenge, five research institutions representing academia, industry, and government integrated their research into a single robot named GRACE as discussed by the authors, which was used to solve as much of the challenge as possible.

TL;DR: This article describes this first-year effort by the GRACE team, including not only the various techniques each participant brought to GRACE but also the difficult integration effort itself.

TL;DR: By introducing two modes of sliding autonomy, the architecture is able to achieve the high reliability of a teleoperated system combined with the high efficiency of autonomous operation, and the incurred mental demand of the operator is directly proportional to the increase in system efficiency.