A testbed for exploring human-robot interaction with unmanned aerial and ground vehicles

Abstract

Over the last twenty years, the emerging roles of unmanned aerial/ground vehicles in the U.S. military presented a number of different research opportunities in usability and training, ranging from robotic control interfaces to human-robot team collaboration. In this paper we present a testbed that we developed as a flexible software platform to explore a variety of training and coordination issues with UXVs for military application. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.