Gilles Coppin
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83
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About
Gilles Coppin is a leading researcher at the intersection of human factors and autonomous systems, with a primary focus on human-swarm interaction and supervisory control. His work addresses the critical challenge of enabling humans to effectively manage increasingly autonomous robot teams, particularly in complex domains like aviation and manufacturing. Coppin’s major contribution is his pioneering framework for the “autonomy spectrum” in swarm supervisory control, which provides a systematic way to analyze and design the human-operator’s role, ensuring that autonomy does not come at the cost of performance or safety. This foundational work, published in 2011, has garnered 60 citations and remains a key reference in the field. He has also advanced the concept of “autonomy transparency,” demonstrating in a 2014 study that clear communication of an autonomous system’s intent and state is crucial for managing operator cognitive workload and situation awareness in multi-UAV management. More recently, Coppin has applied his expertise to the Industry 5.0 paradigm, modeling fatigue in robot-assisted work to prioritize worker wellbeing. His 2024 paper on this topic, already with 10 citations, signals a growing impact. Through a unifying classification of swarm self-organisation behaviors (2023), he continues to provide designers with the analytical tools needed to build predictable, human-centered autonomous systems.
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- 2Modeling Fatigue in Manual and Robot-Assisted Work for Operator 5.010 citations · 2024
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