Paper Info
Title
Communication Through Motion: Legibility of Multi-Robot Systems
Abstract
The interaction between a user and a multi-robot system in a shared environment is a relatively uncharted topic. But, as these types of systems will increase in the future years, an efficient way of communication is necessary. To this aim, it is interesting to discover if a multi-robot system can communicate its intentions exploiting only some motion-variables, which are characteristics of the motion of the robots. This study is about the legibility of a multi-robot system: in particular, we focus on the influence of these motion-variables on the legibility of more than one group of robots that move in a shared environment with the user. These motion-variables are: trajectory, dispersion and stiffness. They are generally used to define the motion of a group of mobile robots. Trajectory and dispersion were found relevant for the correctness of the communication between the user and the multi-robot system, while stiffness was found relevant for the rapidity of communication. The analysis of the influence of the motion-variables was carried out with an ANOVA (analysis of variance) based on a series of data coming from an experimental campaign conducted in a virtual reality set-up.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MRS.2019.8901100
2019 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
multirobot system,motion-variables,shared environment,mobile robots,stiffness,ANOVA,analysis of variance,virtual reality set-up
Legibility,Robotic systems,Virtual reality,Stiffness,Computer science,Correctness,Human–computer interaction,Robot,Trajectory,Mobile robot
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-2877-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Beatrice Capelli142.47
Cristian Secchi297781.94
Lorenzo Sabattini339336.65