Human-Robot Interaction Reconfigurable Test Environment: Optimizing the Human Interface

The Human-Robot Interaction Reconfigurable Test Environment (HRI-RTE) integrates a grid-based, reconfigurable test arena and an operator workstation with state-of-the-art displays and controls for commanding small, multi-purpose robots. It will be used to investigate advanced methods of commanding robots, innovative display concepts, improved camera views, methods of feedback to operators for teleoperation, and mitigations for time delays. The reconfigurability of the test environment will be validated by test scenarios that focus on human-robot system performance across a range of HRI technologies, tasks, metrics, and environmental scenarios. The project's focus is on the human interface to the robotic system rather than on robot design.

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