Multi-robot remote driving with collaborative control - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Multi-robot remote driving with collaborative control

Terrence W. Fong, S. Grange, Chuck Thorpe, and Charles Baur
Workshop Paper, 10th IEEE International Workshop on Robot-Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '01), pp. 237 - 242, September, 2001

Abstract

Multi-robot remote driving has traditionally been a dif-ficult problem. Whenever an operator is often forced to divide his limited resources (attention, decision making, etc.) among multiple robots, control becomes complicated and performance quickly deteriorates as a result. To rem-edy this, we need to find ways to make command generation and coordination efficient, so that human-robot interaction is transparent and tasks are easy to perform. In this paper, we discuss the use of collaboration, human-robot dialogue and waypoint-based driving for vehicle teleoperation. We then describe how these techniques can enable a single operator to effectively control multiple mobile robots.

BibTeX

@workshop{Fong-2001-8301,
author = {Terrence W. Fong and S. Grange and Chuck Thorpe and Charles Baur},
title = {Multi-robot remote driving with collaborative control},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Workshop on Robot-Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '01)},
year = {2001},
month = {September},
pages = {237 - 242},
address = {Bordeaux and Paris, France},
}