TY - GEN
T1 - Neglect benevolence in human-swarm interaction with communication latency
AU - Walker, Phillip
AU - Nunnally, Steven
AU - Lewis, Mike
AU - Kolling, Andreas
AU - Chakraborty, Nilanjan
AU - Sycara, Katia
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In practical applications of robot swarms with bio-inspired behaviors, a human operator will need to exert control over the swarm to fulfill the mission objectives. In many operational settings, human operators are remotely located and the communication environment is harsh. Hence, there exists some latency in information (or control command) transfer between the human and the swarm. In this paper, we conduct experiments of human-swarm interaction to investigate the effects of communication latency on the performance of a human-swarm system in a swarm foraging task. We develop and investigate the concept of neglect benevolence, where a human operator allows the swarm to evolve on its own and stabilize before giving new commands. Our experimental results indicate that operators exploited neglect benevolence in different ways to develop successful strategies in the foraging task. Furthermore, we show experimentally that the use of a predictive display can help mitigate the adverse effects of communication latency.
AB - In practical applications of robot swarms with bio-inspired behaviors, a human operator will need to exert control over the swarm to fulfill the mission objectives. In many operational settings, human operators are remotely located and the communication environment is harsh. Hence, there exists some latency in information (or control command) transfer between the human and the swarm. In this paper, we conduct experiments of human-swarm interaction to investigate the effects of communication latency on the performance of a human-swarm system in a swarm foraging task. We develop and investigate the concept of neglect benevolence, where a human operator allows the swarm to evolve on its own and stabilize before giving new commands. Our experimental results indicate that operators exploited neglect benevolence in different ways to develop successful strategies in the foraging task. Furthermore, we show experimentally that the use of a predictive display can help mitigate the adverse effects of communication latency.
KW - human-robot interaction
KW - Human-swarm interaction
KW - swarm robotics
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84871536260
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-35380-2_77
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-35380-2_77
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871536260
SN - 9783642353796
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 662
EP - 669
BT - Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing - Third International Conference, SEMCCO 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing, SEMCCO 2012
Y2 - 20 December 2012 through 22 December 2012
ER -