Human perception of swarm fragmentation
Aymeric Hénard, Etienne Peillard, Jérémy Rivière, Sébastien Kubicki, Gilles Coppin
January, 2024
Abstract
Fragmentation in robot swarms can reduce efficiency and prevent the swarm from completing its task. This study examines how humans detect and anticipate fragmentation across swarming, flocking, expansion, and densification behaviours. Participants performed a binary discrimination task, and the results show that expansion and anticipation are especially difficult while separation distance and speed guide judgments.
Publication
ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction (HRI’24)

Aymeric Hénard
Research Engineer
IMT Atlantique
Lab-STICC

Associate Professor
IMT Atlantique
LS2N
CNRS IRL CROSSING
My research focuses on perception and embodied interaction in Virtual and Augmented Reality, including augmented affordances, body perception, and human-system cooperation in immersive environments.

Jérémy Rivière
Associate Professor
UBO
Lab-STICC

Sébastien Kubicki
Associate Professor
ENIB
Lab-STICC

Gilles Coppin
Professor
IMT Atlantique
Lab-STICC