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Decision Dynamics in Mixed Teams of Humans and Robots MURI 2007 - Behavioral Dynamics in Cooperative Control Boston University, John Baillieul. Development of protocols for explicit and implicit human-robot com-munication.
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Decision Dynamics in Mixed Teams of Humans and Robots MURI 2007 - Behavioral Dynamics in Cooperative Control Boston University, John Baillieul Development of protocols for explicit and implicit human-robot com-munication • Long-Term PAYOFF: There will be a better under- standing of the paradigm shift associated with psychological aspects of humans operating on parity with automatons. • OBJECTIVES • Understand how decisions are made in human-machine interactions. • Understand how communication occurs through agent actions in mixed teams of robots and humans. • Understand the psychological aspects of task partitioning PDA-link for supervisory control of a team of robots • APPROACH/TECHNICAL CHALLENGES • Modeling of individual and group decision making incorporating social feedback • Develop protocols for task-centric communication through action • Develop protocols for situation-based adaptive task partitioning among automatons and human supervisors • ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RESULTS • Good Year-1 progress on all challenges. • FUNDING ($7,400,000 Five Year Total) • Period 2: (12/01/07-11/30/08) • AFOSR Funds $1,285,246 • TRANSITIONS • Leonard plenary talk at MTNS08 (Va Tech) • Baillieul pleanry talk at SICE08 (Tokyo, Japan) • CDC 08 Invited Session • STUDENTS, POST-DOCS • Students: Dhananjay Raghunathan, Lester McCoy, Dimitar Baronov, Colin Murphy, Darin Hitchings, Andrew Stewart, Andrea Nedic, Stephen Smith, Sandra Dandach, Nathan Owen, Benjamin Tippett. Post-Docs: Ming Cao, Damon A. Tomlin, Kurt Plarre, Linh Vu. • LABORATORY POINT OF CONTACTCorey Schumacher