Design and Evaluation of a Collaborative Teleoperation Interface for Multi-Operator Multi-Robot Systems in Challenging Environments

Key points

• Multi-robot systems that combine the complementary capabilities of specialised platforms are critical for complex missions in challenging, inaccessible environments.1
• Current deployments assign an operator or operator team to each robot, with collaboration relying on operator-to-operator communication to manually coordinate heterogeneous platforms with incompatible interfaces.1
• A comparative user study with 16 participants compared three teleoperation conditions: co-located operators with a shared interface, remote operators with a shared interface, and co-located operators with individual interfaces.1
• These results demonstrate that co-presence and shared interfaces provide complementary benefits, supporting workload regulation and mutual awareness respectively in multi-operator, multi-robot teleoperation.1

Sources (1)

• [1]Design and Evaluation of a Collaborative Teleoperation Interface for Multi-Operator Multi-Robot Systems in Challenging Environments
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 10, 03:32 PM

  This study designs and evaluates a shared-visualisation collaborative teleoperation interface to improve operator coordination, situational awareness, and the task performance in multi-operator, multi-robot systems.

  Multi-robot systems that combine the complementary capabilities of specialised platforms are critical for complex missions in challenging, inaccessible environments.

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