Teams organization and performance in multi-human/multi-robot teams

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1617-1623

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Evaluation; Human robot interaction; Metrics; Multi robot system; Team organization

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; EVALUATION; HUMAN -ROBOT INTERACTIONS; METRICS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; TEAM ORGANIZATION;

CONTROL THEORY; CYBERNETICS; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; LAKES; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 78751547117     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5642379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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