In order for humans and robots to work effectively together, they need to be able to converse about abilities, goals and achievements. Thus, we are developing an interaction infrastructure called the "Human-Robot Interaction Operating System" (HRI/OS). The HRI/OS provides a structured software framework for building human-robot teams, supports a variety of user interfaces, enables humans and robots to engage in task-oriented dialogue, and facilitates integration of robots through an extensible API.
For example, Fong et al. REF proposed a middleware called "Human-Robot Interaction Operating System" (HRI/OS) for collaboration of humans and robots, and adopted a similar hierarchical structure consisting of distributed processing modules.
The human-robot interaction operating system
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