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

Abstract

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Measuring Human Workload in a Collaborative Human-Robot Team

“…Robots are becoming more integrated into everyday life (e.g., industry, civil servant tasks, homes). Time-critical domains, such as emergency response (Humphrey & Adams, 2009;Murphy, 2014) and military deployments (Freedy, DeVisser, Weltman, & Coeyman, 2007;Hutchins, Cosenzo, Barnes, Feng, & Pillalamarri, 2010), will incorporate human-robot (HR) teams into missions, and robots will act as peer team members (Scholtz, 2003). As this transition occurs, robot team members will interact and collaborate with humans (Hoffman & Breazeal, 2004;Kaupp, Makerenko, & Durrant-Whyte, 2010).…”

Hemispheric Differences and Spatial Ability in Robot to Human Tactile Communication

“…In 2001, the United States Congress recommended that by 2015, approximately 30 percent of operational ground vehicles should be unmanned (U.S. Congress, 2011). Robots in current military use are unmanned air (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) (Hutchins, Cosenzo, Barnes, Feng & Pillalamarri, 2010). These devices are typically teleoperated, keeping the operator out of harm's way.…”

“…These devices are typically teleoperated, keeping the operator out of harm's way. However, these devices consume operator resources by increasing workload and decreasing situation awareness while the user is operating the device, subsequently introducing a level of vulnerability (Hutchins, Cosenzo, Barnes, Feng, & Pillalamarri, 2010;Reinerman-Jones, Taylor, Sprouse, Barber, & Hudson, 2011). One way to reduce this exposure is to utilize the robot not simply as a tool, but as a team member.…”