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Personalized Human-Swarm Interaction Through Hand Motion

Macchini, Matteo  
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De Matteis, Ludovic
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Schiano, Fabrizio  
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October 1, 2021
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters

The control of collective robotic systems, such as drone swarms, is often delegated to autonomous navigation algorithms due to their high dimensionality. However, like other robotic entities, drone swarms can still benefit from being teleoperated by human operators, whose perception and decision-making capabilities are still out of the reach of autonomous systems. Drone swarm teleoperation is only at its dawn, and a standard human-swarm interface (HSI) is missing to date. In this study, we analyzed the spontaneous interaction strategies of naive users with a swarm of drones. We implemented a machine-learning algorithm to define a personalized Body-Machine Interface (BoMI) based only on a short calibration procedure. During this procedure, the human operator is asked to move spontaneously as if they were in control of a simulated drone swarm. We assessed that hands are the most commonly adopted body segment, and thus we chose a LEAP Motion controller to track them to let the users control the aerial drone swarm. This choicemakes our interface portable since it does not rely on a centralized system for tracking the human body. We validated our HSIs generation algorithm on a set of participants in a realistic simulated environment, showing a positive user feedback and performance comparable with a remote controller after training. Our method leaves the user free to choose between position and velocity control only based on their body motion preferences.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/LRA.2021.3102324
Web of Science ID

WOS:000693756800006

Author(s)
Macchini, Matteo  
De Matteis, Ludovic
Schiano, Fabrizio  
Floreano, Dario  
Date Issued

2021-10-01

Published in
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters
Volume

6

Issue

4

Start page

8341

End page

8348

Subjects

Robotics

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Robotics

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ai-based methods

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learning and adaptive systems

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swarm robotics

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telerobotics and teleoperation

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wearablerobots

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interface

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robot

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quadrotor

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vision

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flight

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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NCCR-ROBOTICS  
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September 25, 2021
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