Using the Behavior Markup Language for human-robot interaction

Author

Holroyd, Aaron ; Rich, Charles

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Worcester Polytech. Inst., Worcester, MA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 March 2012

Firstpage

147

Lastpage

148

Abstract

This paper describes a Behavior Markup Language (BML) realizer that we developed for use in our research on human-robot interaction. Existing BML realizers used with virtual agents are based on fixed-timing algorithms and because of that are not suitable for robotic applications. Our realizer uses an event-driven architecture, based on Petri nets, to guarantee the specified synchronization constraints in the presence of unpredictable variability in robot control systems. Our implementation is robot independent, open source and uses the Robot Operating System (ROS).

Keywords

Petri nets; control engineering computing; human-robot interaction; hypermedia markup languages; multi-agent systems; BML; Petri nets; ROS; behavior markup language; event driven architecture; fixed timing algorithms; human-robot interaction; robot control systems; robot operating system; robotic applications; synchronization constraints; Animation; Broadcasting; Markup languages; Robots; Schedules; Speech; Synchronization; BML; Event-Driven; Petri Net; ROS; Realizer; Robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2012 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

2167-2121

Print_ISBN

978-1-4503-1063-5

Electronic_ISBN

2167-2121

Type

conf

Filename

6249498