Abstract
Urban search and rescue (USAR) robots get stuck. Furthermore, USAR workers complained that it is difficult to judge whether a teleoperated robot can go through certain apertures. Two experiments tested teleoperators’ abilities to (a) judge whether a robot could fit through apertures (passability), (b) judge whether they could drive a robot through apertures (driveability), and (c) drive the robot through apertures. Experiment 1 examined teleoperators’ passability judgments and whether those same operators hit apertures that were wider than the robot. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1 and examined driveability judgments. Experiment 1 indicated that teleoperators made accurate passability judgments and routinely hit apertures that were wider than the robot. Experiment 2 successfully replicated Experiment 1 and demonstrated that teleoperators did not make accurate driveability judgments. Experiment 1 indicated that teleoperating a robot through an aperture is constrained by the robots’ physical dimensions plus a safety margin associated with how well the operators drive the robot. Thus, teleoperators should base decisions to enter an aperture on their ability to drive the robot. However, Experiment 2 indicated that teleoperators do not make accurate driveability judgments. These results have implications for teleoperator training and the design of robots for specific applications.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 10-28 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2011 |
Keywords
- affordance
- aperture
- human-robot interaction
- remote control
- robot
- teleoperation
- training
- urban search and rescue