Cooperative robots to observe moving targets

A Khan, B Rinner, A Cavallaro - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deployment of multiple robots for achieving a common goal helps to improve the
performance, efficiency, and/or robustness in a variety of tasks. In particular, the observation …

Boredom in the workplace: A new look at an old problem

ML Cummings, F Gao, KM Thornburg - Human factors, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: We review historical and more recent efforts in boredom research and related
fields. A framework is presented that organizes the various facets of boredom, particularly in …

Coordinated navigation of surface and underwater marine robotic vehicles for ocean sampling and environmental monitoring

A Vasilijević, Đ Nađ, F Mandić… - … ASME transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Water pollution generated by accidental spill of hazardous materials is a growing problem
worldwide. There is an urgent need for a tool that would help environmental response teams …

Control sharing in human-robot team interaction

S Musić, S Hirche - Annual Reviews in Control, 2017 - Elsevier
The interaction between humans and robot teams is highly relevant in many application
domains, for example in collaborative manufacturing, search and rescue, and logistics. It is …

Dynamic difficulty using brain metrics of workload

D Afergan, EM Peck, ET Solovey, A Jenkins… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Dynamic difficulty adjustments can be used in human-computer systems in order to improve
user engagement and performance. In this paper, we use functional near-infrared …

Man versus machine or man+ machine?

MM Cummings - IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Allocating roles and functions between the human and computer is critical in defining
efficient and effective system architectures. However, past methodologies for balancing the …

Autonomous UAV cinematography: A tutorial and a formalized shot-type taxonomy

I Mademlis, N Nikolaidis, A Tefas, I Pitas… - ACM Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The emerging field of autonomous UAV cinematography is examined through a tutorial for
non-experts, which also presents the required underlying technologies and connections with …

A meta-analysis of human-system interfaces in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm management

A Hocraffer, CS Nam - Applied ergonomics, 2017 - Elsevier
A meta-analysis was conducted to systematically evaluate the current state of research on
human-system interfaces for users controlling semi-autonomous swarms composed of …

Human interaction with multiple remote robots

M Lewis - Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In this chapter, I review research involving remote human supervision of multiple unmanned
vehicles (UVs) using command complexity as an organizing construct. Multi-UV tasks range …

Drone swarms in forest firefighting: A local development case study of multi-level human-swarm interaction

O Bjurling, R Granlund, J Alfredson, M Arvola… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Swarms of autonomous and coordinating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are rapidly
being developed to enable simultaneous control of multiple UAVs. In the field of Human …