Using Cognitive System Engineering Methods To Inform Human-Robot Collaboration In A Novel Precision Agriculture Application
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Bass, Ellen J.
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Operational concepts for novel robotic systems that include human supervisory control require the consideration of enabling technologies, the needs of the human operators, and their interactions. This presentation discusses the development of a set of function allocations to inform a research roadmap for a novel system that will support the current manual process of thinning of Medjool date trees. An Abstraction hierarchy analysis provided a multi-level description of the envisioned system's goals and functionality, independent of any autonomy, technology, or specific human-robot interaction. After consideration of the enabling technologies, constraints and operational assumptions, some functions needed to remain within the operator's responsibility. Operational event sequence diagrams aided an analysis of information and decision support requirements and further helped to highlight challenges to the human operator's monitoring and control tasks. The combined approach of abstraction hierarchy analysis with operational event sequence diagrams holds promise for helping human-robot interaction researchers identify gaps in envisioned operational concepts.
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2022-10-13
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51:34 minutes
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