Five Things You Should Know About Soldier - Robot Teaming

Abstract

The Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED), U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and partner Tank and Automotive Research Development Command (TARDEC) embarked on a 5-year Army Technology Objective (ATO) research program that addressed human robot interaction (HRI) and teaming for both unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). The program's objective was to understand HRI issues in order to develop technologies and mitigations that enhance HRI performance in future combat environments. In order to put the five year program in manageable perspective, we summarized five important HRI principles and supporting results that emerged from the research effort. The principles cover the benefits of teaming relations for robotic missions as well as crew multitasking problems associated with future robotic missions and possible solutions. We also discussed the importance of individual differences for HRI design and training implications and the advantages of multimodal interfaces and adaptive automation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA505725

Entities

People

  • Ellen Haas
  • Florian Jentsch
  • Jessie Y. Chen
  • Keryl Cosenzo
  • Michael Barnes

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Automation
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Military Research
  • Robots
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Neurological Diseases/Conditions/Disorders

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction