Multi-robot Systems, Machine-Machine and Human-Machine Interaction, and Their Modelling

Abstract

The control of multi-agent systems, including multi-robot systems, requires some level of context and environment awareness as well as interaction among the interworked cognitive entities, whether they are artificial or natural. Proper specification of the cognitive functionalities and of the corresponding interfaces helps in achieving the capability to reach interoperability across different operational domains, and to reuse the system design across different application domains. The model for interworking cognitive entities presented in this article, which includes explicitly interworking capabilities, is applied to two major classes of interaction in multi-robot systems. Being the model inspired by both artificial and natural systems, makes it suitable for both machine-machine and human-machine interaction.