Paper Info
Title
Comparison of a map- vs. camera-based user interface in a multi-robot navigation task
Abstract
Many missions with semi-autonomous multi-robot systems rely on the basic function to autonomously navigate within an unknown operational area. For missions in hazardous environments the efficiency of a robot's autonomous navigation system in an unknown terrain is difficult to estimate. In the case of performance degradations the human operator as a supervisory controller has to intervene and interactively improve the system's quality of service. A study of a novel multi-robot user interface for effective operator intervention is presented. Therefore, a simulated semi-autonomous multi-robot system with three different user interface configurations as well as 1,2, or 4 robots was compared. Central to the study's task is that operators can improve system performance by careful monitoring and intelligent intervention. According to the results this is possible for single robot scenarios but not for the multi-robot settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1244387
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer vision,intelligent robots,man-machine systems,mobile robots,monitoring,multi-robot systems,navigation,user interfaces,camera-based user interface,human-robot interaction,map-based user interface,multirobot navigation task,performance degradation,semiautonomous multirobot systems,supervisory controller,systems quality of service
Computer science,Terrain,Quality of service,Real-time computing,Operator (computer programming),Artificial intelligence,Control theory,Autonomous Navigation System,Simulation,Robot,User interface,Mobile robot,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4
1062-922X
0-7803-7952-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.78
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Boris Trouvain1162.22
Christopher M. Schlick211331.00
Marc Mevert380.78