Experience in System Design for Human-Robot Teaming in Urban Search & Rescue

Balmer, Patrick; Colas, Francis; Corrao, Salvatore; Gianni, Mario; Hlaváč, Václav; Janícek, Miroslav; Keshavdas, Shanker; Kruijff, Geert; Larochelle, Benoit; Linder, Thorsten; Liu, Ming; Mioch, Tina; Neerincx, Mark; Papadakis, Panagiotis; Petricek, Tomas; Pirri, Fiora; Pomerleau, François; Pratzler-Wanczura, Sylvia; Reinstein, Michal; Siegwart, Roland,; Sinha, Arnab; Smets, Nanja; Sulk, Markus; Surmann, Hartmut; Svoboda, Tomáš; Tomatis, Nicola; Tretyakov, Varoslav; Van Diggelen, Jurriaan; Worst, Rainer; Zender, Hendrik; Zimmermann, Karel

Experience in System Design for Human-Robot Teaming in Urban Search & Rescue

Abstract

International audienceThe 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 semi-autonomous 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