Choosing autonomy modes for multirobot search

Human Factors

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-233

  Lewis, Michael ^a   Wang, Huadong ^a   Chien, Shih Yi ^a   Velagapudi, Prasanna ^b   Scerri, Paul ^b   Sycara, Katia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

automation; autonomy modes; exploration performance; exploration tasks; foraging performance; foraging tasks; function allocation; human multirobot teams; human computer interaction (HCI); human robot interaction (HRI); identifying targets; multirobot foraging; multirobot teams; navigation tasks; perceptual search operators; perceptual search performance; perimeter control; robot navigation; robot operators; search tasks; target identification; task centered architectures

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY MODES; EXPLORATION PERFORMANCE; EXPLORATION TASKS; FORAGING PERFORMANCE; FORAGING TASK; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTIONS; IDENTIFYING TARGETS; MULTI-ROBOT TEAMS; MULTIROBOTS; NAVIGATION TASKS; PERIMETER CONTROL; ROBOT NAVIGATION; ROBOT OPERATORS; SEARCH OPERATORS; SEARCH PERFORMANCE; SEARCH TASKS; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TASK-CENTERED ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; METHODOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956829789     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720810366859     Document Type: Article

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