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Improving Ad-Hoc Team Performance Using Video Games, Jeff David Craighead
Improving Ad-Hoc Team Performance Using Video Games, Jeff David Craighead
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examined the effects of distributed, multiplayer training video games on the performance of distributed teams of robot operators. Two hypotheses were tested, the first hypothesis stated that online, game-based team training will improve the performance of an ad-hoc team versus an ad-hoc team formed of individually trained teammates. The second hypothesis stated that the fractal dimension of a robot's path can be used as an indicator of its operator's skill. Forty-one volunteers participated in an experiment in which they played a distributed, online training game which showed them the basics of operating an Inuktun Extreme VGTV for a …
An Inconsistency-Based Approach For Sensing Assessment In Unknown Environments, Jennifer Diane Gage
An Inconsistency-Based Approach For Sensing Assessment In Unknown Environments, Jennifer Diane Gage
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
While exploring an unknown environment, an intelligent agent has only its sensors to guide its actions. Each sensor's ability to provide accurate information depends on the environment's characteristics. If the agent does not know these characteristics, how can it determine which sensors to rely on? This problem is exacerbated by sensing anomalies: cases where sensor(s) are working but the readings lead to an incorrect interpretation of the environment, e.g. laser sensors cannot detect glass. This work addresses the following research question: Can an inconsistency-based sensing accuracy indicator, which relies solely on fused sensor readings, be used to detect and …
Robots Without Faces: Non-Verbal Social Human-Robot Interaction, Cindy L. Bethel
Robots Without Faces: Non-Verbal Social Human-Robot Interaction, Cindy L. Bethel
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Non-facial and non-verbal methods of affective expression are essential for naturalistic social interaction in robots that are designed to be functional and lack expressive faces (appearance-constrained)such as those used in search and rescue, law enforcement, and military applications. This research identifies five main methods of non-facial and non-verbal affective expression (body movement, posture, orientation, color, and sound). From the psychology, computer science, and robotics literature a set of prescriptive recommendations was distilled for the appropriate non-facial and non-verbal affective expression methods for each of three proximity zones of interest(intimate: contact - 0.46 m, personal: 0.46 - 1.22 m, and social: …
Laser Assisted Telerobotic Control For Remote Manipulation Activities, Karan Khokar
Laser Assisted Telerobotic Control For Remote Manipulation Activities, Karan Khokar
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The effort in this work has been to innovatively use range information from a laser sensor mounted on the end effector of a remote robotic arm in a telerobotic system to assist the user in carrying out remote tasks in unstructured environments. Assistance is provided in the form of Traded Supervisory Control where the human is involved in high level activities such as decision making and the machine generates task plans and executes tasks autonomously using laser data and machine intelligence. In this way human planning and high level decision making capabilities are combined with machine computational and precision task …