tailieunhanh - Multi-Robot Systems From Swarms to Intelligent Automata - Parker et al (Eds) Part 10

Tham khảo tài liệu 'multi-robot systems from swarms to intelligent automata - parker et al (eds) part 10', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | VI HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION TASK SWITCHING AND MULTI-ROBOT TEAMS Michael A. Goodrich Computer Science Department Brigham Young University Provo UT USA mike@ Morgan Quigley Computer Science Department Brigham Young University Provo UT USA. Keryl Cosenzo . Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen MD USA. Abstract Determining whether it is possible for a single human to manage a team of multiple robots is an important question given current trends in robotics. Restricting attention to managing a team of multiple robots where a single human must be able to analyze video from each robot we review how neglect time and interaction time of the interface-robot system provide a test for feasibility of a team. We then present a feasibility test that is applicable if the cost of switching attention between multiple robots or multiple tasks can become prohibitive. We then establish that switch costs can be high and show that different tasks impose different switch costs. Keywords Switch costs fan-out human-robot interaction multiple robot management 1. Introduction Recently there has been much discussion in the robotics community on creating robot systems that allow a single human to perform multiple tasks especially managing multiple robots. The possibility for such one-to-many human-robot teams is caused by the ever-increasing autonomy of robots. As a robot becomes more autonomous its human manager has more free time to do other tasks. What better way to use this free time than to have the human manage multiple robots or manage multiple tasks The potential impact of this line of reasoning includes some very desirable consequences but there are some clear upper bounds on the number of robots and the number of tasks that a single human can manage. These upper bounds 185 . Parker et al. eds. Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata. Volume III 185-195. 2005 Springer. Printed in the Netherlands. 186 Goodrich et al. are created by how long a single robot .