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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
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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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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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.

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Accepted/In Press date: April 2015
Published date: July 2015
Venue - Dates: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015-04-01
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 377185
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/377185
PURE UUID: 9d31626d-57fe-49d7-9a91-6f4f8428c655
ORCID for Sarvapali Ramchurn: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9686-4302

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Date deposited: 17 May 2015 17:53
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:22

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Author: Sarvapali Ramchurn ORCID iD
Author: Joel Fischer
Author: Yuki Ikuno
Author: Feng Wu
Author: Jack Flann
Author: Antony Waldock

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