NETWORK-BASED NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL METRICS OF HUMAN TRUST DYNAMICS WHEN TEAMED WITH AUTONOMY
Abstract
First, the proposed equipment will interface with our existing facilities and upgrade other equipment available for research at the Cyber-human-physical Systems (CHPS) Lab (directed by Dr. Zhaodan Kong) at UC Davis and the Bioastronautics Lab (with Dr. Allison Anderson and Dr. Torin Clark as core faculty members) at CU Boulder. In the CHPS Lab, an interdisciplinary group of computer scientists and engineers bring innovative control theory, formal methods, and machine learning solutions to engineer and understand collaborative and assured autonomy. The lab houses a wide range of aerial and ground robots, e.g., Parrot AR.Drone 2.0, 3DR Solo, Crazyflie 2.0, and Pololu m3pi. The lab also houses several ground truth sensing systems, e.g., a 6DOF OptiTrack motion capturing system, SensoMotoric Instruments eye-tracking glasses, and multiple Emotive Epoc+ EEG headsets. An Emotiv headset has only 14 channels, meaning that it offers a rather low spatial resolution. A research-grade EEG with more channels, such as the proposed g.HIamp- RESEARCH, is needed to enhance the quality of the lab. In the Bioastronautics Lab, research focuses on measuring and mitigating human performance decrements in extreme operational environments. The laboratory houses several aircraft and spacecraft simulators. The Aerospace Research Simulator (AReS) will be leveraged by this project for human-in-the-loop evaluations. The AReS consists of two operator stations, 6 monitor interfaces, including 3 touchscreens, and multiple input manipulators (e.g., hand controllers, foot pedals, button presses). The group has existing psychophysiological monitoring hardware, such as the Biopac MP160 data acquisition unit and modules to wirelessly record heart rate variability (electrocardiogram (EKG)), respiration rate (chest strap), and electrodermal activity (EDA, finger-mounted sensors). The lab also has an Pupil Labs eye tracker currently used for display design and workload evaluation. The proposed fNIRS and EEG NIRSport2 hardware will improve our ability to quantify neurophysiological response to compliment our current hardware and improve estimates of human state. Second, the proposed equipment will enable our collaborative team to establish new research capabilities and work on the following new research project. The two labs will share the two proposed devices during the duration of this project (see Sec. 4.1 for details on how they will be used in our proposed project). Upon the completion of the project, the g.HIamp-RESEARCH headset will be housed at the CHPS Lab and the NIRSport 2 headset will be housed at the Bioastronautics Lab. The estimated useful life of both headsets is 4 years.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 07, 2023
- Source ID
- FA95502110159
Entities
People
- Zhaodan Kong
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Air Force
- University of California, Davis