GOOSE: Semantic search on Internet connected sensors

More and more sensors are getting Internet connected. Examples are cameras on cell phones, CCTV cameras for traffic control as well as dedicated security and defense sensor systems. Due to the steadily increasing data volume, human exploitation of all this sensor data is impossible for effective mission execution. Smart access to all sensor data...

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A usage-centered evaluation methodology for unmanned ground vehicles

This paper presents a usage-centered evaluation method to assess the capabilities of a particular Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) for establishing the operational goals. The method includes a test battery consisting of basic tasks (e.g., slalom, funnel driving, object detection). Tests can be of different levels of abstraction, and be performed in...

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Experience in system design for human-robot teaming in urban search & rescue

The paper describes experience with applying a user-centric design methodology in developing systems for human-robot teaming in Urban Search & Rescue. A human-robot team consists of several robots (rovers/UGVs, microcopter/UAVs), several humans at an off-site command post (mission commander, UGV operators) and one on-site human (UAV operator)....

Effects of reliance support on team performance by advising and adaptive autonomy

Problems with estimating trust in information sources are common in time constraining and ambiguous situations and often lead to a decrease of team performance. Humans lack the resources to track the integrity of information and thus tend to over- or under-rely on advice from support systems. Two types of adaptive team support have been...

Modelling and simulation of human factors in aviation: Methods and guidelines

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is the use of (computer-) simulated models to develop data as a basis for making managerial or technical decisions. Applications of M&S are wide spread, ranging from system simulation in early design stages, atmosphere modeling for weather forecasting, graphical environment modeling for serious gaming, physical...

Using Artificial Team Members for Military Team Training in Virtual Environments

Developing good team skills usually involves exercises with all team members playing their role. This approach is costly and has organizational and educational drawbacks. For the Netherlands army, we developed a more efficient and flexible approach by setting training in virtual environments, and using intelligent software agents to play the...

Employing Use-cases for Piecewise Evaluation of Requirements and Claims

Motivation – Complex design specifications must be partitioned in manageable pieces to be able to evaluate them in separate experiments. No methodology exists yet to deal with this task. Research approach – Practical experience in Situated Cognitive Engineering and the Mission Execution Crew Assistant is combined with a theoretical perspective...

Using artificial team members for team training in virtual environments

In a good team, members do not only perform their individual task, they also coordinate their actions with other members of the team. Developing such team skills usually involves exercises with all members playing their role. This approach is costly and has organizational and educational drawbacks. We developed a more efficient and flexible...

Implementing collective obligations in human-agent teams using KAoS policies

Obligations can apply to individuals, either severally or collectively. When applied severally, each individual or member of a team is independently responsible to fulfill the obligation. When applied collectively, it is the group as a whole that becomes responsible, with individual members sharing the obligation. In this paper, we present...

Assessing Human-Agent Teams for Future Space Missions

Running computer simulations of work practices early on lets researchers test humanagent teams in dangerous, complex environments by incrementally increasing fidelity, adding realistic features, and incorporating human participants.

Flexible Design and Implementation of Cognitive Models for Predicting Pilot Errors in Cockpit Design

This paper describes an integrated design and implementation framework for cognitive models in complex task environments. We propose a task- and humancentered development methodology for deriving the cognitive models, and present a goal-based framework for implementing them. We illustrate our approach by modelling cognitive lockup as an error...

From tools to teammates: Joint activity in human-agent-robot teams

Coordination is an essential ingredient of joint activity in human-agent-robot teams. In this paper, we discuss some of the challenges and requirements for successful coordination, and briefly how we have used KAoS HART services framework to support coordination in a multi-team human-robot field exercise. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Hybrid teams in virtual environments: Samurai joins the training team

This paper demonstrates a virtual environment where mixed human-agent teams are used for team-skills training. © Springer-Verlag 2009.

Intelligent Assistants in Crisis Management: From PDA to TDA

This paper discusses a variety of potential applications of intelligent assistants, from personal digital assistant (PDA) to team digital assistant (TDA). We identify two challenges that arise when developing intelligent assistants in crisis management and give an overview of the different technologies that could be used to address these...