Human-Robot Interface: Issues in Operator Performance, Interface Design, and Technologies

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Cooperative interface of a swarm of UAVs

“…Thus, GOI naturalness is poor. However, current works aims at enhancing the naturalness of interface [3]. That is integrating a less-constrained interaction, at least a single natural modality as input [16,9] (such as gesture, spoken or written language) or output [9] (such as speech, haptic display), multi-modality, flexible interaction [12], providing qualitative spatial information and interaction etc.…”

“…Due to its local nature, the algorithm that the UAVs use to perform their coordinated patrol can misbehave in some configurations. 3 In such cases, the operator can detect the anomaly and take actions by dispatching some UAVs manually to compensate for the anomaly. In this context he/she has to closely supervise the execution of these actions, judge their effectiveness, all the while continuing his/her global supervising activity of the patrol on the whole airbase.…”