http://parasol.tamu.edu/groups/amatogroup/research/flock/ - lots of flocking stuff

iRobot is currently working on a multi-robot control project.

Write survey paper on interface strategies in real time strategy games?

Speaking swarmish: Human-robot interface design for large swarms of autonomous mobile robots - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.130.9920&rep=rep1&type=pdf - MIT 2006. Large swarm of robots.

Supervisory control of multiple robots based on a real-time strategy game interaction paradigm - http://homewood.stanford.edu/publications/htmlpubs/files/JonesS%202001.pdf - references to other multi-robot interaction papers. Good jumping off point - find other papers that reference this.

A video game-based framework for analyzing human-robot interaction: characterizing interface design in real-time interactive multimedia applications - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84.8057&rep=rep1&type=pdf

http://maple.cs.umbc.edu/~don/projects/swarmrobotics.pdf - swarm robotics survey paper

http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/post_prints/pdf/Bashyal_09007dcc80600f1e.pdf - user interface for multi-robot radiation source localization

http://jw.nebulis.org/pubs/2009/AuRo_2009.pdf - Multi-robot deployment and coordination with Embedded Graph Grammars

http://repository.library.ualberta.ca/dspace/bitstream/10048/495/1/chris_parker_phd_thesis.pdf - Collective decision-making in decentralized multiple-robot systems: a biologically inspired approach to making up all of your minds

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.150.3377&rep=rep1&type=pdf - Exerting Human Control Over Decentralized Robot Swarms - Paper is not quite what I'm looking for, but has very solid bibliography.

GUARDIANS robots - firefighter assistance

In contrast to other approaches, I propose to examine the game interface in terms of interactions with the other agents present.

Scales to operator skill - provides intuitive gui/mouse based and provides hotkeys to let experienced users do things more quickly.

We restrict our view to i/o devices found on the common computer system. We neglect issues such as cameras, and input output devices. For a treatment of the topic see [this] excellent paper.

Focused on agent interaction, not interface. other papers deal with interface.

Previous papers have explored applicability of RTS interface to robot interaction and the design of the user interface itself. My focus is on interaction with the agents inside the game.

Broad survey of video game techniques

Applied specifically to UAVs, but goal is general framework

A human interaction focus - segments features into “inputs” and “outputs” - different from my proposed approach

Good bibliography for my research area… spend time reading here.

Paradigm works, but must be adapted

Currently two categories of interfaces: single complex robot and distributed robot system. Need to be able to control multiple complex robots

“complex” - ability to perform extended missions that call for more than one kind of task.

Many current systems operate in “hands off” or full tele-operated control.

Footnote 25, 27 - human robot teams. 17 - Boeing study

“user centered design”

observed SWAT teams - good model for human-human interaction in stressful situation, now integrate in robots

Complete world knowledge not realistic in real world environment

NOTE: maybe I should also look at rpg-ish interfaces… that tend to facilitate “put rock in box” types of commands.

NOTE: one of the fundamental challenges in multi-robot control is to put all robots in a coherent space (same coordinate system) where the user can visually see relations between them and interact with them.

Good results

Results indicated that the user Trusted the robot more with a better interface.

Short paper - 4 pages

MIT 2006

Large (116) swarm of robots.

Deals with develop-run-debug cycle on a local swarm. Emphasizes ways for the operator to easily determine the robots state without consulting a computer screen.

Applications to human-robot interaction. How can a human easily see the internal state of a robot?

Applies strategies from RTS games. Mentions that use of this style of interface to control robots has mixed results (easier to move them or type commands). Mentions that such interfaces are very useful for information display.

looking at augmented reality for future.