USABILITY ISSUES FOR DESIGNING MULTI-ROBOT MISSIONS

As part of our research for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Tactical Mobile Robotics Program, we have conducted, a series of usability studies evaluating the ability of users to design missions (both single and multi-robot) for various scenarios (e.g., airport incursion, biohazard survey and detection). This talk presents the results of this study involving dozens of human subjects working with Georgia Tech’s MissionLab mission specification system, and provides insights into the issues surrounding pre-mission planning for humans tasking teams of mobile robots.