Experience in system design for human-robot teaming in urban search & rescue
conference paper
Kruijff, G.J.M.
Janíček, M.
Keshavdas, S.
Larochelle, B.
Zender, H.
Smets, N.J.J.M.
Mioch, T.
Neerincx, M.A.
Diggelen, J. van
Colas, F.
Liu, M.
Pomerleau, F.
Svoboda, T.
Petriček, T.
Pirri, F.
Giannni, M.
Papadakis, P.
Sinha, A.
Balmer, P.
Tomatis, N.
WOrst, R.
Linder, T.
Surmann, H.
Tretyakov, V.
Corrao, S.
Pratzler-Wanczura, S.
Sulk, M.
Janíček, M.
Keshavdas, S.
Larochelle, B.
Zender, H.
Smets, N.J.J.M.
Mioch, T.
Neerincx, M.A.
Diggelen, J. van
Colas, F.
Liu, M.
Pomerleau, F.
Svoboda, T.
Petriček, T.
Pirri, F.
Giannni, M.
Papadakis, P.
Sinha, A.
Balmer, P.
Tomatis, N.
WOrst, R.
Linder, T.
Surmann, H.
Tretyakov, V.
Corrao, S.
Pratzler-Wanczura, S.
Sulk, M.
The paper describes experience with applying a user-centric design methodology in developing systems for human-robot teaming in Urban Search & Rescue. A human-robot team consists of several robots (rovers/UGVs, microcopter/UAVs), several humans at an off-site command post (mission commander, UGV operators) and one on-site human (UAV operator). This system has been developed in close cooperation with several rescue organizations, and has been deployed in a real-life tunnel accident use case. The human-robot team jointly explores an accident site, communicating using a multi-modal team interface, and spoken dialogue. The paper describes the development of this complex socio-technical system per se, as well as recent experience in evaluating the performance of this system.
TNO Identifier
462320
Source title
The 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan - July 16-19, 2012