Mixed-Granularity Human-Swarm Interaction
Jayam Patel, Yicong Xu, Carlo Pinciroli
Abstract
We present an augmented reality human-swarm interface that combines two modalities of interaction: environment-oriented and robot-oriented. The environment-oriented modality allows the user to modify the environment (either virtual or physical) to indicate a goal to attain for the robot swarm. The robot-oriented modality makes it possible to select individual robots to reassign them to other tasks to increase performance or remedy failures. Previous research has concluded that environment-oriented interaction might prove more difficult to grasp for untrained users. In this paper, we report a user study which indicates that, at least in collective transport, environment-oriented interaction is more effective than purely robot-oriented interaction, and that the two combined achieve remarkable efficacy.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icra2019_mixedgranularity,
title = {Mixed-Granularity Human-Swarm Interaction},
author = {Jayam Patel and Yicong Xu and Carlo Pinciroli},
booktitle = {ICRA 2019},
year = {2019}
}