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Implement duplex communication between HMI and RAI Agents #169

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@boczekbartek

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, communication of the task between RAI and HMI has some limitations:

  1. it goes in 1 direction (HMI -> RAI)
  2. is based on the ros2 topic -> no task start ack
  3. The robot can't return task status, ask for task details or

Describe the solution you'd like
Implementation would solve the issues above by implementing 2 ros2 actions:

  1. Task action:
    • HMI submits tasks to the robotic agent (~RAI agent) using ros2 action.
    • RAI agent accepts the task, frequently sends task feedback, and share the result at the end
  2. Task feedback action: (probably better name needed)
    • RAI agent while executing the task can ask the HMI agent for more information about the task using another ros2 action

Describe alternatives you've considered

  • ros2 service, but decided to use actions since we need feedback and the response can take long. For tasks - execution might be long. For feedback - the agent might be in the middle of a conversation.

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