The Personal Robots group presents a scenario demonstrating mixed-initiative human-robot teams for disaster response. The humanoid robot Nexi and a team of robot helicopters are deployed in response to a simulated fire on board a Navy ship. The robots work with a remote human operator, searching for survivors and guiding them to safety. A mixed-initiative task system allows the human operator to specify team goals through a task interface, and also allows goals to be generated by the robots as a result of local observations and interactions with victims. The robots autonomously process the details of navigation and task execution, communicating their location, task status and important observations through the interface to the operator. The interface also allows the robots to ask the operator for help with difficult recognition problems, such as confirming a victim's location based on partial identification.

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