Autonomous Cobots to Enhance Situational Awareness

NASA envisions OSAM solutions that involve heterogeneous teams of coordinated service robots. nbsp;It will be infeasible to effectively coordinate such teams using existing teleoperation techniques. nbsp;To alleviate this issue, TRACLabs is proposing a framework to enhance perceptual feedback and decrease the cognitive load on operatorsnbsp;by building upon ideas from active perception, sliding autonomynbsp;andnbsp;nbsp;task-level commanding. The resulting system, which we call ACES (Autonomous Cobots to Enhance Situational Awareness), will autonomously position additional robots or sensor systems not currently engaged in a task to autonomously obtain additional meaningfulnbsp;percepts to enhance situational awareness, thus increasing the likelihood of successful task completion.