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Collaborative and Shared Control of Unmanned Vehicle Systems

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-07-M-0278
Agency Tracking Number: O063-UM6-4180
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: OSD06-UM6
Solicitation Number: 2006.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-05-24
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-05-24
Small Business Information
814 W. Diamond Ave. Suite 301
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
United States
DUNS: 121257443
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: Yes
Principal Investigator
 Charles Shoemaker
 Senior Program Manager
 (240) 631-0008
 cshoe@roboticresearch.com
Business Contact
 Alberto Lacaze
Title: President
Phone: (240) 631-0008
Email: lacaze@roboticresearch.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Technologies for Human-Robotic Interactions (HRI) currently are not designed for, and do not adequately support, dynamic teaming and Command & Control (C2) interaction paradigms in distributed, manned-unmanned teaming environments to a degree routinely exhibited by well-trained and experienced manned-manned operations or by highly autonomous hierarchical intelligent control systems. Interaction protocols do exist for highly trained collaborative teams or cooperative co-habitants in a purely manned environment. Interaction protocols also exist for highly autonomous systems employing a hierarchical intelligent control architecture capable of integrating distributed autonomy. However, the equivalent interaction protocols are not well defined and matured for human-robotic (manned-unmanned) for the collaborative teams and cooperative co-habitants cases. Our over-arching objectivefor this SBIR effort is to use our team’s expertise in human system integration and autonomous control to develop HRI protocols capable of achieving similar levels of integration between the manned-unmanned systems as currently exist between the manned-manned or unmanned-unmanned.

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