There is current interest in creating human-robot teams in which a human operator is in its own conveyance teaming up with several autonomous teammates. In this work we focus on human-robot teamwork in the marine environment as it is challenging and can serve as a surrogate for other environments. Marine elements such as wind speed, air temperature, water, obstacles, and ambient noise can have drastic implications for team performance. Our goal is to create a human-robot system that can join many humans and many robots together to cooperatively perform tasks in such challenging environments. In this paper, we present our human-robot speech dialog system and compare participant responses to having human versus autonomous vehicle teammates escorting and holding station at locations of interest.
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