MANY ROBOTS MAKE SHORT WORK - REPORT OF THE SRI INTERNATIONAL

Indoor mobile robots are becoming reliable enough in navigation tasks to consider working with teams of robots. Using SRI International's op en-agent architecture (OAA) and SAPHIRA robot-control system, we confi gured three physical robots and a set of software agents on the intern et to plan and act in coordination Users communicate with the robots u sing a variety of multimodal input: pen, voice, and keyboard. The robu st capabilities of the OAA and SAPHIRA enabled us to design and implem ent a winning team in the six weeks before the Fifth Annual AAAI Mobil e Robot Competition and Exhibition.