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5 Information Sciences: Autonomous Systems
5 Information Sciences: Autonomous Systems
Pages 51-57
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The ARL research program is part of a larger collaborative effort involving external partners. A better definition of the role of the internal research in the overall program goals and continued collaboration with partners is strongly encouraged.
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Techniques and approaches to generating articulating limbs with integrated flexure hinges and actuators represent advances in the engineering of MEMS technology. This has broad implications and applications to numerous MEMS systems -- for example, MEMS-based microscale sensors and instrumentations such as mass spectrometers on a chip, drug delivery systems, and chemical assay analysis, where controlling microfluids are of fundamental importance.
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The focus of this effort is the use of visual display screen overlays to communicate robot perceptions and intentions to a human operator during an automated navigation task. The experimental approach is sound and based on prior studies of shared mental models and automation transparency.
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Similarly, metrics for system performance evaluation in generalized terms, such as actuation efficiency, propulsive efficiency, hover power loading, power to weight ratio for the actuator, endurance, and specific energy of the fuel source, would add focus to coupled systems and vehicles to include physics-based performance attributes. For robot systems, the specific resistance or cost of transport for any locomotive machine, natural or man-made, is a measure of a machine's locomotive efficiency.
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• Establish a directed robotic mobility propulsion effort to unify and direct activities required to produce very high power and high energy density systems. • Establish an integrated design and optimization methodology (considering key parameters like energy, power conversion efficiency, and locomotive efficiency)
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In HRI research efforts related to understanding automated system actions, the initial experiments provide encouraging results for simple task scenarios involving few factors at a time. There is a need for follow-on experiments that validate the use of visual aids when performing more complex tasks, particularly in a multitasking environment, and on dismounted soldier interfaces.
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Other specific suggestions to improve the overall research enterprise include the following: • Require researchers to clearly articulate the existing technical challenges in their research and how and why the proposed tools and methods are likely to resolve those challenges. • Require all researchers to identify quantifiable metrics against which progress can be gauged.
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