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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
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