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Human-Robot Interaction For Multi-Robot Systems, Bennie Lewis
Human-Robot Interaction For Multi-Robot Systems, Bennie Lewis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Designing an effective human-robot interaction paradigm is particularly important for complex tasks such as multi-robot manipulation that require the human and robot to work together in a tightly coupled fashion. Although increasing the number of robots can expand the area that the robots can cover within a bounded period of time, a poor human-robot interface will ultimately compromise the performance of the team of robots. However, introducing a human operator to the team of robots, does not automatically improve performance due to the difficulty of teleoperating mobile robots with manipulators. The human operator’s concentration is divided not only among multiple …
Influence Of Task-Role Mental Models On Human Interpretation Of Robot Motion Behavior, Scott Ososky
Influence Of Task-Role Mental Models On Human Interpretation Of Robot Motion Behavior, Scott Ososky
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The transition in robotics from tools to teammates has begun. However, the benefit autonomous robots provide will be diminished if human teammates misinterpret robot behaviors. Applying mental model theory as the organizing framework for human understanding of robots, the current empirical study examined the influence of task-role mental models of robots on the interpretation of robot motion behaviors, and the resulting impact on subjective ratings of robots. Observers (N = 120) were exposed to robot behaviors that were either congruent or incongruent with their task-role mental model, by experimental manipulation of preparatory robot task-role information to influence mental models (i.e., …