Abstract:
We analyze a human and multi-robot collaboration system and propose a method to optimally schedule the human attention when a human operator receives collaboration reques...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
We analyze a human and multi-robot collaboration system and propose a method to optimally schedule the human attention when a human operator receives collaboration requests from multiple robots at the same time. We formulate the human attention scheduling problem as a binary optimization problem which aims to maximize the overall performance among all the robots, under the constraint that a human has limited attention capacity. We first present the optimal schedule for the human to determine when to collaborate with a robot if there is no contention occurring among robots' collaboration requests. For the moments when contentions occur, we present a contention-resolving Model Predictive Control (MPC) method to dynamically schedule the human attention and determine which robot the human should collaborate with first. The optimal schedule can then be determined using a sampling based approach. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated through simulation that shows improvements.
Published in: 2020 American Control Conference (ACC)
Date of Conference: 01-03 July 2020
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 27 July 2020
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