Computing the effects of operator attention allocation in human control of multiple robots

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 385-397

  Crandall, Jacob W ^a   Cummings, Mary L ^b   Della Penna, Mauro ^c   De Jong, Paul M A ^d  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Della Penna Autotrasporti Srl   (Italy)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention allocation; human performance modeling; humanrobot interaction; multirobot teams; supervisory control

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION ALLOCATION; CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES; HUMAN CONTROL; HUMAN OPERATOR; HUMAN-PERFORMANCE MODELING; MODEL PREDICTION; MODELING METHOD; MULTI-ROBOT TEAMS; MULTIPLE ROBOT; PRIORITY TASKS; ROBOT SYSTEM; SEMI-AUTOMATED; STOCHASTIC DOMAINS; SUPERVISORY CONTROL; TIME-CRITICAL SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 79955467447     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2084082     Document Type: Article

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