Soldier-Robot Teaming: Effects of Multimodal Collaboration on Team Communication for Robot Reconnaissance

Abstract

The impacts on performance of three different forms of communication (radio, chat, and tactile belt) were explored in the context of a small unmanned ground vehicle (SUGV) target identification task. The target identification task required a commander with knowledge of target locations and access to a digital map displaying the current SUGV position and orientation to direct a Soldier remotely operating the SUGV to the targets using a finite set of 11 commands. The study revealed no evidence of a loss of Soldier performance using the tactile belt communications channel. The finding suggests that the tactile use of haptic signals may be feasible, a potentially important finding for situations requiring covert communications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA531969

Entities

People

  • Keryl Cosenzo
  • Krishna Pillalamarri
  • Michael Barnes
  • Shaun Hutchins
  • Theodric Feng

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Communication Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Engineering
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Military Operations
  • Navigation
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

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