  Sheila Tejada, Andrew Cristina, Priscilla Goodwyne, Eric
Normand, Ryan O’Hara, and Shahrukh Tarapore  This paper
describes the Virtual Synergy interface, which combines a three
dimensional graphical interface with physical robots to allow
for collaboration among multiple human researchers, simulated
software agents and physical teams of multi-terrain robots for
the task of Urban Search and Rescue. Using the interface to
communicate and monitor the robots gives the human operators the
ability to function as team members, where the robots can
fluidly shift from being completely independent to tele-
operated. This opens up opportunities to explore research in
adjustable autonomy of robot teams, such as distributed
planning, multi-agent learning, and dynamic collaboration.