Hybrid Teams of Humans, Robots and Virtual Agents in a Production Setting

Hybrid Teams of Humans, Robots and Virtual Agents in a Production Setting
Tim Schwartz, Michael Feld, Christian Bürckert, Svilen Dimitrov, Joachim Folz, Peter Hevesi, Dieter Hutter, Bernd Kiefer, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Christoph Lüth, Dennis Mronga, Gerald Pirkl, Torsten Spieldenner, Malte Wirkus, Ingo Zinnikus, Sirko Straube
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE-16), 12th, September 12-13, London, United Kingdom

Abstract:

This video paper describes the practical outcome of the first milestone of a project aiming at setting up a socalled Hybrid Team that can accomplish a wide variety of different tasks. In general, the aim is to realize and examine the collaboration of augmented humans with autonomous robots, virtual characters and SoftBots (purely software based agents) working together in a Hybrid Team to accomplish common tasks. The accompanying video shows a customized packaging scenario and can be downloaded from http://hysociatea.dfki.de/?p=441.