A Remote Synthetic Testbed For Human-Robot Teaming: An Iterative Design Process

Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) missions often involve a need to complete tasks in hazardous environments. In such situations, human-robot teams (HRT) may be essential tools for future USAR missions. Transparency explanation are two information exchange processes where transparency is real-time not. For effective HRTs, certain levels of must met, but how can these modes team communication operationalized? During the COVID-19 pandemic, our approach answering this question involved an iterative design process that factored research objectives as inputs pilot studies with remote participants. Our final testbed resulted converting in-person task environment completely study environment. Changes included: utilizing user-friendly video conferencing Zoom custom-built application administration improved HRT helped us avoid confounding performance measures.