Designing Interaction for Multi-agent Cooperative System in an Office Environment

Future intelligent system will involve various artificial agents, including mobile robots, smart home infrastructure or personal devices, which share data and collaborate with each other to serve users. Designing efficient interactions which can support users to express needs to such intelligent environments, supervise the collaboration of different entities and evaluate the outcomes, will be challengeable. This paper presents the design and implementation of the human-machine interface of Intelligent Cyber-Physical system (ICPS), which is a multi-entity coordination system of robots and other smart agents in a workplace (Honda Research Institute). ICPS gathers sensory data from entities and receives users' inputs, then optimizes plans to utilize the capability of different entities to serve people.