Robotic swarm connectivity with human operation and bandwidth limitations

Nunnally, Steven and Walker, Phillip M and Lewis, Michael and Kolling, Andreas and Chakraborty, Nilanjan and Sycara, Katia (2012) Robotic swarm connectivity with human operation and bandwidth limitations. In: AAAI Fall Symposium on Human Control of Bio-Inspired Swarms, Arlington, VA.

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Abstract

Human interaction with robot swarms (HSI) is a young field with very few user studies that explore operator behavior. All these studies assume perfect communication between the operator and the swarm. A key challenge in the use of swarm robotic systems in human supervised tasks is to understand human swarm interaction in the presence of limited communication bandwidth, which is a constraint arising in many practical scenarios. In this paper, we present results of human-subject experiments designed to study the effect of bandwidth limitations in human swarm interaction. We consider three levels of bandwidth availability in a swarm foraging task. The lowest bandwidth condition performs poorly, but the medium and high bandwidth condition both perform well. In the medium bandwidth condition, we display useful aggregated swarm information (like swarm centroid and spread) to compress the swarm state information. We also observe interesting operator behavior and adaptation of operators' swarm reaction.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Status:	Published
Creators/Authors:	Creators Email Pitt Username ORCID Nunnally, Steven Walker, Phillip M Lewis, Michael Kolling, Andreas Chakraborty, Nilanjan Sycara, Katia
Date:	November 2012
Date Type:	Publication
Access Restriction:	No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Journal or Publication Title:	AAAI Fall Symposium on Human Control of Bio-Inspired Swarms
Publisher:	American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Event Title:	AAAI Fall Symposium on Human Control of Bio-Inspired Swarms
Event Type:	Conference
Institution:	University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs:	School of Information Sciences > Information Science
Refereed:	Yes
ISBN:	978-1-57735-593-9
Official URL:	http://www.aaai.org/Press/Reports/Symposia/Fall/fs...
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2013 16:00
Last Modified:	31 Jul 2020 19:05
URI:	http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19023

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