Technologies for Assessing Human–Machine Interfaces “Commander–Operator–Group of Robots”

This paper examines the application and development of technologies for quantitatively assessing human–machine interfaces intended for use in controlling a group of robots. This article presents an analysis of existing technologies for evaluating human–machine interfaces. The analysis reveals that the currently used technologies do not fully support a comprehensive quantitative assessment of human–machine interfaces, necessitating the development of appropriate formal tools and computational instruments. This approach is proposed for the development of technologies for evaluating human–machine interfaces (commander–operator–robot group). This approach utilizes computational procedures to determine quantitative indicators of the compliance of the actual characteristics of the interfaces being evaluated with the required ones. A distinctive feature of the proposed approach is its comprehensive nature, which allows for the formalization of the most significant, key qualitative characteristics using expert methods to obtain sufficiently reliable and valid interface assessments, expressed as numerical values. The proposed approach can be applied to obtain a quantitative assessment of a wide range of human–machine interfaces, as well as to evaluate other information and communication tools for human interaction with technical systems when creating fundamentally new human–machine (ergatic) systems.