Discussion of Challenges for User Interfaces in Human-Robot Teams

Abstract

This paper describes the challenges for user interfaces in human-robot teams and elaborates requirements considering the different roles that human can take over in such teams. The implementation of various test interfaces and observations from experiments support the claimed requirements. The discussed human-robot teams consist of a remote supervisor and several team members (humans and robots) in the workspace. Humans and robots incorporate their different capabilities into the team for the accomplishment of a common goal. The supervisor guides the team and monitors the overall situation. The humans in the workspace work side-by-side with the robots and interact with them as peers. Index Terms — Human-robot interaction (HRI), Human-robot teams, teleoperation, user interfaces.