Bandwidth allocation in a military teleoperation task

Author

Fisher, Alia ; McDermott, Patricia L. ; Fagan, Shane

Author_Institution

Alion Sci. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 March 2009

Firstpage

287

Lastpage

288

Abstract

The implications of bandwidth allocation are described for teleoperation in a military task that involved navigation, target detection, and target identification. Color versus grayscale imagery was manipulated. Participants themselves traded off resolution and frame rate settings. Participants minimized switching between resolution/frame rate settings and tended to use settings with high resolution/low frame rate. Courses completed with the highest resolution (and lowest frame rate) had the fastest target identification times, but no other differences were observed between settings. Color imagery offered advantages for overall course time and the time to identify a tank as friendly or enemy.

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; image colour analysis; image resolution; military computing; military vehicles; mobile robots; navigation; object recognition; telerobotics; tracked vehicles; video signal processing; bandwidth allocation; color imagery; frame rate setting; grayscale imagery; image resolution; military teleoperation task; navigation; switching minimization; tank identification; target detection; target identification; vehicle teleoperation; Cameras; Gray-scale; Image color analysis; Image resolution; Navigation; Robots; Vehicles; Human-robot interaction; color; frame rate; grayscale; resolution; teleoperation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

La Jolla, CA

ISSN

2167-2121

Print_ISBN

978-1-60558-404-1

Type

conf

Filename

6256067