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

Anders Lyhne Christensen; Kasper Andreas Rømer Grøntved; Maria-Theresa Oanh Hoang; Alexandra Hettich; 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, Alexandra Hettich, 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 ahuman operator can effectively engage and control a system composed of multiple autonomous robots, especially in unstructuredand outdoor environments. This paper reports on ongoing workin the project HERD — Human-AI Collaboration: Engaging andControlling Swarms of Robots and Drones, in which we focus ontwo concrete use cases from industrial partners, namely farmingand search & rescue. One of the industrial partners, AgroIntelligence ApS, currently sells autonomous farming robots,while the other, Robotto ApS, develops autonomous drone-basedmonitoring solutions for emergency responders. Both partnersaim to scale their technologies to multi-robot/multi-drone operations. In this paper, we present the two use cases, their differencesand similarities, challenges and preliminary results.Index Terms—human-robot interaction, search and rescue,agricultural robotics, swarm robotics

Original language	English
Publication date	2022
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Human-Multi-Robot Systems Workshop - Kyoto, Japan Duration: 27. Oct 2022 → 27. Oct 2022

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Workshop	Human-Multi-Robot Systems Workshop
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kyoto
Period	27/10/2022 → 27/10/2022

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Christensen, A. L., Grøntved, K. A. R., Hoang, M.-T. O., Hettich, A., 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. Paper presented at Human-Multi-Robot Systems Workshop, Kyoto, Japan.

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