The HERD Project: Human-Multi-Robot Interaction in Search & Rescue and in Farming

Anders Lyhne Christensen; Kasper Andreas Rømer Grøntved; Maria-Theresa Oanh Hoang; Niels van Berkel; Mikael Skov; Alea Scovill; Gareth Edwards; Kenneth Richard Geipel; Lars Dalgaard; Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist; Ioanna Constantiou; Christiane Lehrer; Timothy Merritt

The HERD Project: Human-Multi-Robot Interaction in Search & Rescue and in Farming

Anders Lyhne Christensen^*, Kasper Andreas Rømer Grøntved, Maria-Theresa Oanh Hoang, Niels van Berkel, Mikael Skov, Alea Scovill, Gareth Edwards, Kenneth Richard Geipel, Lars Dalgaard, Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist, Ioanna Constantiou, Christiane Lehrer, Timothy Merritt

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Large-scale multi-robot systems have numerous potential real-world applications. It is, however, still unclear how a human operator can effectively engage and control a system composed of multiple autonomous robots, especially in unstructured and outdoor environments. This paper reports on ongoing work in the project HERD — Human-AI Collaboration: Engaging and Controlling Swarms of Robots and Drones, in which we focus on two concrete use cases from industrial partners, namely farming and search & rescue. One of the industrial partners, Agro Intelligence ApS, currently sells autonomous farming robots, while the other, Robotto ApS, develops autonomous drone-based monitoring solutions for emergency responders. Both partners aim to scale their technologies to multi-robot/multi-drone operations. In this paper, we present the two use cases, their differences and similarities, challenges and preliminary results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Adjunct Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Number of pages	4
Publication date	2022
Pages	1-4
Publication status	Published - 2022

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The HERD project: Human and robot swarm interaction
Skov, M. B. (Participant), Merritt, T. R. (Participant) & van Berkel, N. (Participant)
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Sværme af robotter skal selv organisere deres mission
Hoang, M.-T. O., van Berkel, N., Skov, M. B. & Merritt, T. R.
31/03/2023
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Press/Media: Press / Media
Flokke af robotter skal hjælpe landmænd og redningsarbejdere
01/02/2022 → 02/02/2022
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Christensen, A. L., Grøntved, K. A. R., Oanh Hoang, M.-T., van Berkel, N., Skov, M., Scovill, A., Edwards, G., Geipel, K. R., Dalgaard, L., Lundquist, U. P. S., Constantiou, I., Lehrer, C., & Merritt, T. (2022). The HERD Project: Human-Multi-Robot Interaction in Search & Rescue and in Farming. In Adjunct Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 1-4) https://nielsvanberkel.com/files/publications/iros2022a.pdf

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Sværme af robotter skal selv organisere deres mission

Flokke af robotter skal hjælpe landmænd og redningsarbejdere

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