Design and evaluation of a multimodal human-multirobot interface

摘要: Supervisory control of mobile multi-robot systems often forces the operator to concurrently process information multiple visual displays under different task conditions. The approach this paper is design and evaluate a multimodal human-robot interface support processing dual tasks. main innovation binaural auditory renderer which allows shifting state from channel operator. was evaluated in laboratory study with 20 participants. Dependent variables were human performance workload. Independent modality (monomodal vs. multimodal) number robots be supervised (1 or 2 robots). results show that fusion significantly improves also lowers subjective workload (α = 0,05).