Paper Info
Title
Analysis of Human-robot Interaction at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials
Abstract
AbstractIn December 2013, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Robotics Challenge DRC Trials were held in Homestead, Florida. The DRC Trials were designed to test the capabilities of humanoid robots in disaster response scenarios with degraded communications. Each team created their own interaction method to control their robot, either the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot or a robot built by the team itself. Of the 15 competing teams, eight participated in our study of human-robot interaction. We observed the participating teams from the field with the robot and in the control room with the operators, noting many performance metrics, such as critical incidents and utterances, and categorizing their interaction methods according to the number of operators, control methods, and amount of interaction. We decomposed each task into a series of subtasks, different from the DRC Trials official subtasks for points, to gain a better understanding of each team's performance in varying complexities of mobility and manipulation. Each team's interaction methods have been compared to their performance, and correlations have been analyzed to understand why some teams ranked higher than others. We discuss lessons learned from this study, and we have found in general that the guidelines for human-robot interaction for unmanned ground vehicles still hold true: more sensor fusion, fewer operators, and more automation lead to better performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1002/rob.21568
Periodicals
Field
DocType
Volume
Ranking,Simulation,Computer science,Automation,Sensor fusion,Artificial intelligence,Control room,Robot,Robotics,Human–robot interaction,Humanoid robot
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1556-4959
19
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.78
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Holly A. Yanco117418.48
Adam Norton2190.78
Willard Ober3190.78
David Shane4221.24
Anna Skinner5231.65
Jack Maxwell Vice6190.78