Myers, K. L. and Konolige, K. Semi-autonomous Mapmaking and Navigation, in Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Real-World Autonomous Mobile Robots, 1992.
Abstract
Map construction and task-oriented navigation constitute two important capabilities for mobile robots. Despite their value, progress to date in the development of stand-alone robots endowed with these capabilities has been limited. We describe an architecture of mobile robots based on the the concept of semi-autonomy that employs communication with a human advisor in order to simplify the tasks of map construction and navigation. Communication can be used both by the human to convey information to the robot that is beyond it’s on perceptual capabilities and by the robot to extract information from the advisor that may be required in the execution of an assigned task. The semi-autonomous philosophy has two main benefits, namely a de-emphasis on the notoriously difficult subtask of perception and an overall increase in flexibility.