An Approach to Team Programming with Markup for Operator Interaction

This paper presents a team plan specification language that combines work in the creation of generic team plans and design of intelligent interfaces. Two motivations the language are (1) to combine inter-agent cooperation and operator interaction of complex behaviors into a single plan, and (2) to separate plan design and UI design such that they are created by application domain experts and human interaction experts, respectively. The result is a generic language for multi-robot plans that defines tasks to be performed, interactions for maintaining situational awareness, and mixed initiative reactions to operator workload.