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Usage of Autonomy Features in USAR Human-Robot Teams
Benoit Larochelle, Geert-Jan Kruijff, Jurriaan van Diggelen
Pages - 19 - 30     |    Revised - 05-04-2013     |    Published - 30-04-2013
Volume - 4   Issue - 1    |    Publication Date - June 2013  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
autonomy, transparency, trust, situation awareness, UGV
ABSTRACT
This paper presents the results of a high-fidelity urban search and rescue (USAR) simulation at a firefighting training site. The NIFTi was system used, which consisted of a semi-autonomous ground robot, a remote-controlled flying robot, a multiview multimodal operator control unit (OCU), and a tactical-level system for mission planning. From a remote command post, firefighters could interact with the robots through the OCU and with a rescue team in person and via radio. They participated in 40-minute reconnaissance missions and showed that highly autonomous features are not easily accepted in the socio-technological context. In fact, the operators drove three times more manually than with any level of autonomy.The paper identifies several factors, such reliability, trust, and transparency that require improvement if end-users are to delegate control to the robots, irrespective of how capable the robots are in such missions.
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Mr. Benoit Larochelle
Language Technology Lab German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) Saarbrücken, 66121 - Germany
benoit.larochelle@dfki.de
Dr. Geert-Jan Kruijff
Language Technology Lab German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) Saarbrücken, 66121 - Germany
Dr. Jurriaan van Diggelen
TNO Human Factors Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Res earch (TNO) Soesterberg, NL-3769 DE - Netherlands


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