Human-Robot Teaming

About

This project’s objective is to develop and validate a method for identifying and supporting tactical and opportunistic collaboration strategies in human-robot systems. Complex operations such as disaster response (e.g., search and rescue tasks with robotic assets), emergency response (e.g., a fire department that sends out UAVs to support firefighters), space operations and, to a lesser degree, manufacturing (e.g., a human-robot system performing a relatively unstructured assembly task) are characterized by time pressure, uncertain demands, and conflicting goals. To enable a range of human control behaviors in human-robot collaboration, integration of human and robot capabilities needs to explicitly support tactical and opportunistic control .


Researchers

Martijn IJtsma
Jacob Keller
Katie Albert


Featured Publications

[1] Albert, K., & IJtsma, M. (2021). Modeling the Effects of Machine Rigidities on Joint Work Strategies. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 47-51). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

[2] Keller, J., & IJtsma, M. (2021). Requirements for Computational Approaches to Analyzing Resilience in Human-Machine Teams. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 653-657). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.