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Performance of Autonomy and Identity for Trust- and Workload-Sensitive Interaction with Distributed Autonomous Systems
Completed
TRL 3 (started at 2, targeting 3)
Description
Multi-robot teams aboard the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will need to communicate with human teammates aboard the Gateway and with ground control workers permanently stationed on earth. Many aspects of these robots' communication strategies may be viewed as performative: robots may perform different levels of autonomy to build trust and rapport through transparency, and may perform different identities to control the localization of that trust to specific bodies and identities. Through the lens of performance of identity and autonomy, we will develop a better understanding of the impact of human-multi-robot communication strategies on the localization, dissociation, and fragmentation of human trust across different robot bodies and identities, and enable robots to maintain sensitivity to spatiotemporal distance when communicating, to build trust and rapport without cognitively overloading human teammates.
Benefits
This research will enable distributed, integrated, autonomous systems to communicate with local teammates (e.g., astronauts) and remote teammates (e.g., ground control workers) in a way that better promotes appropriate levels of trust, low cognitive workload, and strong human-machine social relationships. Additionally this research will maintain sensitivity to spatiotemporal distance and avoid uncanny valley effects
Details
| Technology area | Robotic Systems > Human and Robot Interaction > Multimodal and Proximate Interaction |
| Program | Space Technology Research Grants (STRG) |
| Lead organization | Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO |
| Start date | 2019-10-15 |
| End date | 2024-10-14 |
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