World Embedded Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction

  • Authors:
  • Mike Daily;Youngkwan Cho;Kevin Martin;Dave Payton

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 5 - Volume 5
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Human interaction with large numbers of robots ordistributed sensors presents a number of difficult challengesincluding supervisory management, monitoring ofindividual and collective state, and apprehending situationawareness. A rich source of information about theenvironment can be provided even with robots that have noexplicit representations or maps of their locale. To do this,we transform a robot swarm into a distributed interfaceembedded within the environment. Visually, each robotacts like a pixel within a much larger visual display spaceso that any robot need only communicate a small amount ofinformation from its current location. Our approach usesAugmented Reality techniques for communicatinginformation to humans from large numbers of small-scalerobots to enable situation awareness, monitoring, andcontrol for surveillance, reconnaissance, hazard detection,and path finding.