Reusable Teamwork for Multi-Robot Teams

Teams for Teams Performance in Multi-Human/Multi-Robot Teams

The present study addresses the interaction between automation and organization of human teams in controlling large robot teams performing an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) task. We identify three subtasks: perceptual visual search for victims, assistance teleoperation to assist robot, and navigation path planning and coordination. For the studies reported, navigation was selected for automatio...

Cognitive Coordination for Cooperative Multi-Robot Teamwork

Topics in Multi - Robot Teamwork

In recent years there is a growing interest in multi-robots systems, where a group of N robots are working collaboratively in order to execute a given task. This thesis addresses two open challenges in multi-robot systems. The first is the challenge of deciding on which robot, out of a group of robots, should travel to a goal location, to carry out a task there. The second is the challenge of i...

Human Control Strategies for Multi-Robot Teams

Expanding human span of control over teams of robots presents an obstacle to the wider deployment of robots for practical tasks in a variety of areas. One difficulty is that many different types of human interactions may be necessary to maintain and control a robot team. We have developed a taxonomy of human-robot tasks based on complexity of control that helps explicate the forms of control li...

Trilateration Localization for Multi-robot Teams

The ability of robots to quickly and accurately localize their neighbors is extremely important for robotic teams. Prior approaches typically rely either on global information provided by GPS, beacons and landmarks, or on complex local information provided by vision systems. In this paper we describe our trilateration approach to multi-robot localization, which is fully distributed, inexpensive...