Wie viele Roboter kann eine Person gleichzeitig steuern? – Ein DARPA-Projekt stellt langjährige Annahmen auf den Kopf

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>Swarms of autonomous robots are increasingly being tested and deployed in complex missions, yet a certain level of human oversight during these missions is still required. Which means a major question remains: How many robots—and how complex a mission—can a single human manage before becoming overwhelmed?

>In a study funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ([DARPA](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/darpa)), experts show that humans can single-handedly and effectively manage a [heterogenous swarm](https://spectrum.ieee.org/designing-customizable-self-folding-swarm-robots) of more than 100 autonomous ground and aerial vehicles, while feeling overwhelmed only for brief periods of time during an overall small portion of the mission. For instance, in a particularly challenging, multi-day experiment in an urban setting, human controllers were overloaded with stress and workload only three percent of the time. The [results](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10757435) were published 19 November in [*IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics*](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10495159).

>Julie A. Adams, the associate director of research at Oregon State University’s Collaborative [Robotics](https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/) and Intelligent Systems Institute, has been studying human interactions with robots and other complex systems, such as aircraft cockpits and [nuclear power](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/nuclear-power) plant control rooms, for 35 years. She notes that robot swarms can be used to support missions where work may be particularly dangerous and hazardous for humans, such as monitoring wildfires.