A question that many researchers in social robotics are addressing is how to create more human-like behaviour in robots to make the collaboration between a human and a robot more intuitive to the human partner. In order to develop a human-like collaborative robotic system, however, human collaboration must first be better understood. Human collaboration is something we are all familiar with, however not that much is known about it from a kinematic standpoint. One dynamic that hasn't been researched thoroughly, yet naturally occurs in human collaboration, is for instance leader-follower dynamics. In our previous study, we tackled the question of leader-follower role allocation in human dyads during a collaborative reaching task, where the results implied that the subjects who performed higher in the individual experiment would naturally assume the role of a leader when in physical collaboration. In this study, we build upon the leader-follower role allocation study in human dyads by observing how the leader-follower dynamics change when the collaborative task becomes more complex. Here, the study was performed on a reaching task, where one subject in a dyad was faced with an additional task of obstacle avoidance when performing a 2D reaching task, while their partner was not aware of the obstacle. We have found that subjects change their roles throughout the task in order to complete it successfully, however looking at the overall task leader the higher-performing individual will always dominate over the lower-performing one, regardless of whether they are aware of the additional task of obstacle avoidance or not.
CoLF: Learning Consistent Leader-Follower Policies for Vision-Language-Guided Multi-Robot Cooperative Transport
Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)（信息科学系，科学技术研究生学校，科学与技术国立研究所（NAIST））；École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)（洛桑联邦理工学院（EPFL））
Vision-Based Leader-Follower Formation Control for Cooperative UAVs in GPS-Degraded Environments
Autonomous Robotics Systems Limited（自主机器人系统有限公司）；University of Hyderabad（海得拉巴大学）；Ideabytes Software India Private Limited（Ideabytes软件印度私人有限公司）；Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；Tata Consultancy Services（塔塔咨询服务公司）；University of Malaya（马来亚大学）
Distributed 3D Leader-Follower Formation Control with Field-of-View Safety via Control Barrier Functions
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston（休斯敦大学电气与计算机工程系）；Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston（休斯敦大学工程技术系）
