We consider multi robot applications, where a human operator monitors and supervise the team to pursue complex objectives in complex environments. Robots, specially at field sites, are often subject to unexpected events that can not be managed without the intervention of the operator(s). For example, in an environmental monitoring application, robots might face extreme environmental events (e.g. water currents) or moving obstacles (e.g. animal approaching the robots). In such scenarios, the operator often needs to interrupt the activities of individual team members to deal with particular situations. This work focuses on human-multi-robot-interaction in these casts. A widely used approach to monitor and supervise robotic teams are team plans, which allow an operator to interact via high level objectives and use automation to work out the details. The first problem we address in this context, is how human interrupts (i.e. change of action due to unexpected events) can be handled within a robotic team. Typically, after such interrupts, the operator would need to restart the team plan to ensure its success. This causes delays and imposes extra load on the operator. We address this problem by presenting an approach to encoding how interrupts can be smoothly handled within a team plan. Building on a team plan formalism that uses Colored Petri Nets, we describe a mechanism that allows a range of interrupts to be handled smoothly, allowing the team to effectively continue with its task after the operator intervention. We validate the approach with an application of robotic water monitoring. Our experiments show that the use of our interrupt mechanism decreases the time to complete the plan (up to 48% reduction) and decreases the operator load (up to 80% reduction in number of user actions). Moreover, we performed experiments with real robotic platforms to validate the applicability of our mechanism in the actual deployment of robotic watercraft. The second problem we address is how to handle intervention requests from ...


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    Titel :

    Modeling Supervisory Control in Multi Robot Applications



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2018-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Hochschulschrift


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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