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A study of human-agent collaboration for multi-UAV task allocation in dynamic environments

Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.; Fischer, Joel E.; Ikuno, Yuki; Wu, Feng; Flann, Jack; Waldock, Antony

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Authors

Sarvapali D. Ramchurn

JOEL FISCHER Joel.Fischer@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction

Yuki Ikuno

Feng Wu

Jack Flann

Antony Waldock



Abstract

We consider a setting where a team of humans oversee the coordination of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform a number of search tasks in dynamic environments that may cause the UAVs to drop out. Hence, we develop a set of multi-UAV supervisory control interfaces and a multi-agent coordination algorithm to support human decision making in this setting. To elucidate the resulting interactional issues, we compare manual and mixed-initiative task allocation in both static and dynamic environments in lab studies with 40 participants and observe that our mixed initiative system results in lower workloads and better performance in re-planning tasks than one which only involves manual task allocation. Our analysis points to new insights into the way humans appropriate flexible autonomy.

Citation

Ramchurn, S. D., Fischer, J. E., Ikuno, Y., Wu, F., Flann, J., & Waldock, A. (2015). A study of human-agent collaboration for multi-UAV task allocation in dynamic environments.

Conference Name International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15)
End Date Jul 31, 2015
Publication Date Jul 31, 2015
Deposit Date Feb 10, 2016
Publicly Available Date Feb 10, 2016
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/755945
Publisher URL http://ijcai.org/papers15/Abstracts/IJCAI15-171.html
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Copyright IJCAI 2015

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