Human Interaction With Robot Swarms: A Survey

Human-Robot Interaction: A Survey

Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) has recently received considerable attention in the academic community, in labs, in technology companies, and through the media. Because of this attention, it is desirable to present a survey of HRI to serve as a tutorial to people outside the field and to promote discussion of a unified vision of HRI within the field. The goal of this review is to present a unifie...

Scalable Human Interaction with Robotic Swarms

In this paper we evaluate the scalability of human-swarm interaction (HSI) in terms of operator workload and asses the impact of three control methods on swarm performance and operator workload. Specifically, we investigate the ability of HSI to (1) overcome fanout limitations of traditional supervisory control and (2) manage a wide range of team sizes without altering the operator’s control st...

Robust Human Interaction with Robotic Swarms

Collective Construction with Robot Swarms

Social insects build large, complex structures, which emerge through the collective actions of many simple agents acting with no centralized control or preplanning. These natural systems inspire the research topic of collective construction, in which the goal is to engineer artificial systems that build in a similar way, with swarms of simple robots producing desired structures. In this chapter...

Human - Robot Interaction with a Minimal

Interaction between robots and humans should be at a level which is accessible and natural for human operators. A lexicon template is proposed for specifying commands for 2D mobile robot navigational tasks. The language lexicon is a minimal spanning semantic set for human 2D navigational tasks. The task command lexicon consists of a verb, destination, direction and a speed. The destination is a...