Human-Autonomy Teaming in Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Operations Under-Degraded Conditions
Abstract
The proposed research leverages the recent success of PALM lab s (AFRL) Synthetic Air Vehicle Operator s interactions with Cooke s CERTT Lab on teams. Furthering the effort of better understanding human-automation teaming, we (Cognitive Engineering Research Institute - CERI) propose a series of experiments to assess the quality of human-autonomy teaming in the face of degraded conditions resulting from automation failures, autonomy failures, and intentional malicious cyber actions.Through experiments in the CERTT Lab we will 1) understand how experienced vs. novice human-autonomy teams respond to degraded conditions, 2) develop a training or technological intervention to help human-autonomy teams better respond to degraded conditions, and 3) evaluate the synthetic teammate s ability to work with two humans to respond to degraded conditions. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the human-autonomy teams we will extend our current coordination metric from one that is descriptive to one that is capable of assessing team adaptation and resilience in order to fully understand the requirements of autonomy for effective teaming with human teammates in an uncertain environment.This work will 1) lead to a better understanding of mechanisms of team resilience and adaptation under degraded conditions, 2) provide insight on the best ways for autonomy to team with humans to produce adaptive and resilient teams, 3) lead to the development of interventions to promote adaptive teamwork in human automation teaming under degraded conditions4) provide an assessment of AFRL s second generation synthetic teammate, and 5) provide an assessment of the quality of coordination in regard to adaptation and resilience in the face of degraded conditions that is a more robust measure of team effectiveness than that provided by outcome measures.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 05, 2017
- Source ID
- N000141712382
Entities
People
- Nancy J Cooke
Organizations
- Cognitive Engineering Research Institute
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy