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Multi-human Management of Robotic Swarms

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Human-Computer Interaction. Multimodal and Natural Interaction (HCII 2020)

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Swarm robotics is an emerging field that is expected to provide robust solutions to spatially distributed problems. Human operators will often be required to guide a swarm in the fulfillment of a mission. Occasionally, large tasks may require multiple spatial swarms to cooperate in their completion. We hypothesize that when latency and bandwidth significantly restrict communication among human operators, human organizations that promote individual initiative perform more effectively and resiliently than hierarchies in the cooperative best-m-of-n task. Simulations automating the behavior of hub-based swarm robotic agents and simulated groups of human operators are used to evaluate this hypothesis. To make the comparisons between the team and hierarchies meaningful, we explore parameter values determining how simulated human operators behave in teams and hierarchies to optimize the performance of the respective organizations. We show that simulation results generally support the hypothesis with respect to the effect of latency and bandwidth on organizational performance.

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The work in this paper was supported by a grant from the US Office of Naval Research under grant number N000141613025. All opinions, findings, and results are the responsibility of the authors and not the sponsoring organization.

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Grosh, J.R., Goodrich, M.A. (2020). Multi-human Management of Robotic Swarms. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Multimodal and Natural Interaction. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12182. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49062-1_41

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