Analysis Techniques for Displaying Robot Intent with LED Patterns

Abstract

Autonomous field robots are often rugged and have limited capabilities to communicate with human teammates when working side-by-side in the field. For this project, we demonstrated how simple, lightweight hardware on the robot can be used to communicate onboard information and robot intent to a human teammate. Specifically, LED signal patterns served as a communication vehicle to visually display a mobile robots traversal intent. Software was written to interface with the onboard LEDs, and the documentation of this software is included in this technical note.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1060437

Entities

People

  • Jeff Twigg
  • Maggie Wigness
  • Yenet Deribe Tafesse

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Application Programming Interface
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Computer Programming
  • Engineering
  • Euler Angles
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Information Science
  • Light Emitting Diodes
  • Lightweight
  • Military Applications
  • Military Research
  • Navigation
  • Operating Systems
  • Platforms
  • Teleoperation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy