Abstract-Extending our previous work in real-time visionbased Human Robot Interaction (HRI) with multi-robot systems, we present the first example of creating, modifying and commanding teams of UAVs by an uninstrumented human. To create a team the user focuses attention on an individual robot by simply looking at it, then adds or removes it from the current team with a motion-based hand gesture. Another gesture commands the entire team to begin task execution. Robots communicate among themselves by wireless network to ensure that no more than one robot is focused, and so that the whole team agrees that it has been commanded. Since robots can be added and removed from the team, the system is robust to incorrect additions. A series of trials with two and three very low-cost UAVs and off-board processing demonstrates the practicality of our approach.

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Abstract-We describe a system whereby multiple humans and mobile robots interact robustly using a combination of sensing and signalling modalities. Extending our previous work on selecting an individual robot from a population by face-engagement, we show that reaching toward a robot -a specialization of pointing -can be used to designate a particular robot for subsequent one-on-one interaction. To achieve robust operation despite frequent sensing problems, the robots use three phases of human detection and tracking, and emit audio cues to solicit interaction and guide the behaviour of the human. A series of real-world trials demonstrates the practicality of our approach.

Realtime simulation of RoboCup small size soccer robots is a challenging task due to the high frame rate of input vision data and complex dynamic model of robots. In this paper we describe a new multirobot 3D simulator for small size robot soccer domain named 'grSim'. In order to decrease the model complexity and increase simulation speed, a simplified dynamic model for omni wheels is implemented. grSim has a distributed architecture, feature-rich user interface and supports all aspects of a small size robot soccer game, thus it can completely replace all hardware used by teams during software development. grSim can help software/AI developers design smarter SSL robot teams.

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