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Two issues that are crucial to the integration of flying robotic systems into human populated environments include: how humans perceive autonomous flying robots, and how to design and control flying robots to improve the level of comfort and perceived safety for collocated others. This work represents a comprehensive virtual reality test environment to explore scripted and unscripted interactions with flying robots. We employ a multimethod approach by incorporating behavioral measures, self-report questionnaires, and physiological data to characterize human arousal during a variety of predetermined and real-time scenarios in both indoor and outdoor environments. By combining complementary methodological techniques, we can converge on a data-driven model of social etiquette for flying robots; this model can then be reparametrized in terms of planning and control solutions to govern the robot’s behavior in a real-world context.
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This work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation through the National Robotics Initiative grant number 1528036 and EAGER grant number 1548409.
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Widdowson, C., Yoon, HJ., Cichella, V., Wang, R.F., Hovakimyan, N. (2018). VR Environment for the Study of Collocated Interaction Between Small UAVs and Humans. In: Chen, J. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Robots and Unmanned Systems. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 595. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60384-1_33
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