In December 2013, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials were held in Homestead, Florida. The DRC designed to test capabilities of humanoid robots disaster response scenarios with degraded communications. Each team created their own interaction method control robot, either Boston Dynamics Atlas robot or a built by itself. Of 15 competing teams, eight participated our study human‐robot interaction. We observed participating teams from field (with...

Objective The aim of this study is to determine the effects a powered exoskeleton on measures physical and cognitive performance. Background US warfighters carry heavy equipment into battle, exoskeletons may reduce that burden. While are currently evaluated for their performance, not considered. Method Twelve military members participated in simulated patrol task under three conditions: wearing (PWR), an unpowered (UNP), without (OFF). following confederate over obstacles at constant pace,...

This report outlines all test methods and reviews results derived from performance benchmarking of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) in dense urban environments conducted during Phase 2 the Development Execution Comprehensive Integrated Systematic Intelligent Vehicle Evaluations (DECISIVE) project by University Massachusetts Lowell (HEROES Project UA-1). Using 9 developed methods, over 100 tests were to benchmark 8 sUAS platforms: Cleo Robotics Dronut X1P (P = prototype), FLIR Black...

In June 2015, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals were held in Pomona, California. The DRC served as third phase of program designed to test capabilities semi-autonomous, remote humanoid robots perform disaster response tasks with degraded communications. All competition teams responsible for developing their own interaction method control robot. Of 23 competition, 20 consented participate this study human–robot (HRI). evaluation team...

Benchmarking of robotic manipulations is one the open issues in research. An important factor that has enabled progress this area last decade existence common object sets have been shared among different research groups. However, existing are very limited when it comes to cloth-like objects unique particularities and challenges. This paper a first step towards design cloth set be distributed groups from robotics manipulation community. We present household related tasks serve expose...

Our research focuses on how a telepresence robot operator, the people with robot, and itself collaborate so that operator reaches his/her intended destination. requires higher levels of autonomous navigation can, for example, go to specified destination follow person. However, commercial robots are primarily teleoperated, only few provide assisted around obstacles. We present evolution our overall design augmenting two VGo Communications' robots, Hugo Margo. detail requirements constraints...

In recent years, many learning based approaches have been studied to realize robotic manipulation and assembly tasks, often including vision force/tactile feedback. How-ever, it is unclear what the baseline state-of-the-art performance bottleneck problems are. this work, we evaluate off-the-shelf (OTS) industrial solutions on a recently introduced benchmark, National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) Assembly Task Board. A set tasks methods are provided understand their intrinsic...

As development of robots with the ability to self-assess their proficiency for accomplishing tasks continues grow, metrics are needed evaluate characteristics and performance these robot systems interactions humans. This proficiency-based human-robot interaction (HRI) use case can occur before, during, or after a task. article presents set this case, driven by four-stage cyclical flow: (1) self-assessment (RSA), (2) communication human (RCP), (3) understanding (HUP), (4) perception human’s...

Controlling the movements of mobile robots, including driving robot through world and panning robot's cameras, typically requires many physical joysticks, buttons, switches. Operators will often employ a technique called "chording" to cope with this situation. Much like piano player, operator simultaneously actuate multiple joysticks switches his or her hands create combination complimentary movements. However, these controls are in fixed locations unable be reprogrammed easily. Using...

This letter describes a set of metrics and supporting benchmarking protocols for determining the performance characteristics robot end-effectors. In short-term, these tools are proving useful as common ground assessing comparing The long-term goal is standard framework providing technical specifications robotic end-effectors to help pair technologies application spaces. presents subset - grasp strength, cycle time, finger repeatability with accompanying measurement techniques test artifacts....

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already proven useful in human lives generally, there is an opportunity for specialized human-AI interaction (HAI) to support and provide care older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, the integration of this technology population must be thoughtfully designed accommodate specific needs limitations. This includes careful measurement both humans systems. We developed evolving dataset categorizing relevant tools into five groups:...

Abstract This article presents a set of nondestructive test methodologies designed to evaluate and compare performance the communication links used for control telemetry small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) (drones) that are operating indoors in subterranean environments. Such standardized does not yet exist. Indoor operation requires sUAS operate without global positioning system often spatially constrained non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environment. Operating indoor environments puts...

This study analyzed the performance of twelve military members in a simulated, fatigue-inducing patrol task under three conditions: wearing powered exoskeleton, an unpowered and without exoskeleton. While walking with weight at prescribed pace over obstacles while following confederate, participants were subject to dual-task cognitive test which they answered radio calls visually scanned for lighted targets. Cognitive load was varied through secondary measured visual reaction time test....

Introduction Cystic adventitial disease (CAD) is a rare vascular condition which most commonly causes localized stenosis or occlusions of the popliteal artery. It characterized by presence unilocular multilocular mucin-containing cysts in layer affected vessel. The these results narrowing arterial lumen, leading to intermittent claudication with relatively sudden onset and rapid progression. common otherwise healthy young middle-aged males without other signs atherosclerosis cardiovascular...

Objective To provide a comprehensive characterization of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) personal protective equipment (PPE) by evaluating its effects on the human body, specifically poses, tasks, and conditions under which EOD operations are performed. Background PPE is designed to protect technicians from blast. The required features protection make heavy, bulky, poorly ventilated, difficult maneuver in. It not clear how wearer physiologically adapts maintain physical cognitive...

Robot control typically requires many physical joysticks, buttons, and switches. Taking inspiration from video game controllers, we have created a Dynamically Resizing, Ergonomic, Multi-touch (DREAM) controller to allow for the development of software-based operator unit (SoftOCU). The DREAM Controller is wherever person places his or her hand; thus needed develop an algorithm accurate hand finger registration. Tested with set 405 hands 62 users, our correctly identified 97% hands.

When humans work closely together, they can pick up subtle cues from their team members and adapt behavior appropriately. Humans working with robots may also give off cues, but the cannot detect these signals therefore change behavior. In this paper, we focus on heterogeneous multi-human robot teams. Such scenarios exist frequently in search rescue operations as well space missions, where perform tasks that are unsafe or even impossible for humans. At same time, human collaborate to make...

Abstract Automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are now ubiquitous in industrial manufacturing environments. These systems all must possess a similar set of core capabilities, including navigation, obstacle avoidance, localization. However, there few standard methods to evaluate the capabilities limitations these way that is comparable. In this article, test method presented can be used easily scaled augmented according characteristics system under test. The...