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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 humanrobot communication PDA-link for supervisory control of a team of robots APPROACH/TECHNICAL CHALLENGES • Modeling of individual and group decision making incorporating social feedback Long-Term PAYOFF: There will be a better understanding of the paradigm shift associated with psychological aspects of humans operating on parity with automatons. OBJECTIVES • Understand how decisions are made in humanmachine interactions. • Understand how communication occurs through agent actions in mixed teams of robots and humans. • Understand the psychological aspects of task partitioning FUNDING ($7,400,000 Five Year Total) Period 2: (12/01/07-11/30/08) AFOSR Funds $1,285,246 TRANSITIONS • Develop protocols for task-centric communication • Leonard plenary talk at MTNS08 (Va Tech) • Baillieul pleanry talk at SICE08 (Tokyo, Japan) through action • CDC 08 Invited Session • Develop protocols for situation-based adaptive task STUDENTS, POST-DOCS partitioning among automatons and human Students: Dhananjay Raghunathan, Lester McCoy, Dimitar supervisors Baronov, Colin Murphy, Darin Hitchings, Andrew Stewart, Andrea Nedic, Stephen Smith, Sandra Dandach, Nathan Owen, ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RESULTS Benjamin Tippett. Post-Docs: Ming Cao, Damon A. Good Year-1 progress on all challenges. Tomlin, Kurt Plarre, Linh Vu. Boston Univ., Baillieul, FA9550-07-1-0528 LABORATORY POINT OF CONTACT Corey Schumacher 1