Task Description

Optimising the Human-Robot Interaction interface for the best performance of controlling the robots. It includes two main parts:

1. Giving inputs to the robots from the user (such as movement control)
2. Displaying outputs from the robots to the user (such as displaying sensor data)

P.S. It is important to be able to control each robot manually as a safety net, even if the robot is supposed to move autonomously or take inputs from another robot.

Challenges

• One of the main challenges is controlling multiple robots at once and making them collaborate.
• We have different robots and all of them have their individual interface. We need to create some common interface to allow controlling them together
• We will have to integrate radiation sensors into some of the robots and figure out how to visualise radiation

Questions

• Is it better to have a unified or separate interface for each robot?
• How do you control multiple robots with a unified interface?
• What is the optimum manual control/automation ratio?
• Would it be better to stick to natural interfaces like keyboard mouse,

Task Organisation

• Controlling each robot individually
• Collecting rosbag data from the robots
• Simulating control of robots on from a single computer
• Simulating control of multiple robots