Developing Effective and Resilient Human-Agent Teamwork Using Team Design Patterns

Human-agent teams exhibit emergent behavior at the team level, as a result of interactions between individuals within the team. This begs the question how to design artificial team members (agents) as adequate team players that contribute to the team processes advancing team performance, resilience, and learning. This paper proposes the...

The sail framework for implementing human-machine teaming concepts

Human-machine teaming (HMT) is a promising paradigm to approach situations in which humans and autonomous systems must closely collaborate. This paper describes SAIL, a software framework for implementing HMT-concepts. The approach of SAIL is to integrate existing autonomous systems in a framework, that serves as a social layer between...

Human robot team development: An operational and technical perspective

Turning a robot into an effective team-player requires continuous adaptation during its lifecycle to human team-members, tasks, and the technological environment. This paper proposes a concept for human-robot team development over longer periods of time and discusses technological and operational implications. From an operational perspective, we...

On the need for a coordination mechanism to guarantee task completion in a cooperative team

To design good cooperative team members in robotics it is important to know what coordination mechanisms are required. Our approach to explore the need for a coordination mechanism is based on a systematic methodology to identify team coordination requirements. We show that a team combined of robots that each individually can solve a task not...

Adaptive team formation for shared situation awareness

To reach their goals in the most effective way a team of entities needs to have a high situation awareness. In addition, the awareness needs to be shared among the entities and preferably identical in order to coordinate their actions. Unfortunately, optimal identical shared awareness is often not possible due to limited communication...

Explanation and coordination in human-agent teams: A study in the BW4T testbed

There are several applications in which humans and agents jointly perform a task. If the task involves interdependence among the team members, coordination is required to achieve good team performance. Coordination in human-agent teams can be improved by giving humans insight in the behavior of the agents. When humans are able to understand and...

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...

Individual skill measurement by means of simulated teammate in the cheetah tank simulator