About MIRIAM
MIRIAM
enables operators to interrogate autonomous underwater vehicle's actions and status in real time through natural language chat. It allows to ask
‘on-demand’ queries and explanations of behaviour.
MIRIAM interfaces with the Neptune autonomy software provided by SeeByte Ltd and runs alongside their SeeTrack interface.
Natural language is intuitive and requires no memorisation of commands or traditional training.
Objectives
- Collaborative decision-making where humans and machines are effective parts of the same team.
- Increase transparency between operator and autonomous system.
- Increase situation awareness.
- Reduce information overload.
What MIRIAM can do
MIRIAM is able to answer a varied range of queries about the vehicles in real time. It supports speech output and recognition, so operators can write the query or speak it out loud and MIRIAM will reply in natural
language.
Some example queries include:
- What is the battery level?
- Is Target1 finished?
- When will the vehicle reach the recovery point?
MIRIAM will also help the operator giving alerts when there are issues with the underwater vehicles, such as faults and low battery alerts. It encourages collaboration with operators with mixed-initiative conversations.
Explanations of Behaviour
MIRIAM is able to explain the behaviour of the vehicles during a mission. It can answer queries about why and why not the vehicles perform certain actions.
Some example queries include:
- Why is the vehicle spiralling?
- Why is the vehicle coming to the surface?
- Why is the vehicle not surveying Area1?
