TY - JOUR
T1 - "Turn off the television!"
T2 - 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
AU - Bruemmer, David J.
AU - Few, Douglas A.
AU - Walton, Miles C.
AU - Boring, Ronald L.
AU - Marble, Julie L.
AU - Nielsen, Curtis W.
AU - Garner, Jim
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - In order to apply mobile robots to a new range of applications, we require control architectures and interfaces that support symbiotic interaction. Remote deployment of mobile robots offers one of the most compelling opportunities to merge human intelligence with machine proficiency. This paper discusses a mixed-initiative control strategy based not on video, but on an abstracted, collaborative workspace - a 3-D, video-game representation constructed on-the-fly - that promotes situation-awareness and efficient tasking. The new interface requires orders of magnitude less bandwidth than teleoperation and permits transmission ranges of thousands of miles. Unlike video, which offers only a first person, local environment perspective, the 3-D interface changes perspective to support changing levels of operator involvement and robot autonomy. The human-participant study presented here evaluates the effectiveness of this interaction substrate on a remote exploration task. Results indicate that this new tool for interfacing humans and intelligent robots can reduce communication bandwidth and human error, increase operators' subjective "feeling of control", and enable a spectrum of remote robotic applications which have never before been possible.
AB - In order to apply mobile robots to a new range of applications, we require control architectures and interfaces that support symbiotic interaction. Remote deployment of mobile robots offers one of the most compelling opportunities to merge human intelligence with machine proficiency. This paper discusses a mixed-initiative control strategy based not on video, but on an abstracted, collaborative workspace - a 3-D, video-game representation constructed on-the-fly - that promotes situation-awareness and efficient tasking. The new interface requires orders of magnitude less bandwidth than teleoperation and permits transmission ranges of thousands of miles. Unlike video, which offers only a first person, local environment perspective, the 3-D interface changes perspective to support changing levels of operator involvement and robot autonomy. The human-participant study presented here evaluates the effectiveness of this interaction substrate on a remote exploration task. Results indicate that this new tool for interfacing humans and intelligent robots can reduce communication bandwidth and human error, increase operators' subjective "feeling of control", and enable a spectrum of remote robotic applications which have never before been possible.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=27544492325&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:27544492325
SN - 1530-1605
SP - 296
JO - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
JF - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Y2 - 3 January 2005 through 6 January 2005
ER -