Patent ID: 8073564

Claim:
A multi-robot control interface for controlling a plurality of robots, comprising a user interface, including: at least one robot display window for each of the plurality of robots, the at least one robot display window illustrating one or more conditions of a respective one of the plurality of robots; at least one robot control window for each of the plurality of robots, the at least one robot control window configured to receive one or more commands for sending to the respective one of the plurality of robots; and a multi-robot common window comprised of a fusion of information representing a collaborative workspace between at least one user and more than one concurrently operating robots of the plurality of robots, the collaborative workspace including map information added by the at least one user and map information received from the more than one concurrently operating robots of the plurality of robots and configured for presenting the fusion of information as a coherent picture of an emerging map of an environment of the plurality of robots.