A Study of Human-Agent Collaboration for Multi-UAV Task Allocation in Dynamic Environments
A Study of Human-Agent Collaboration for Multi-UAV Task Allocation in Dynamic Environments
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.
Ramchurn, Sarvapali
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Fischer, Joel
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Ramchurn, Sarvapali
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Ramchurn, Sarvapali, Fischer, Joel, Ikuno, Yuki, Wu, Feng, Flann, Jack and Waldock, Antony
(2015)
A Study of Human-Agent Collaboration for Multi-UAV Task Allocation in Dynamic Environments.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
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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.
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Accepted/In Press date: April 2015
Published date: July 2015
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International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015-04-01
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/377185
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Sarvapali Ramchurn
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Joel Fischer
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Yuki Ikuno
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Feng Wu
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Jack Flann
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Antony Waldock
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