Oregon State University Robotics and AI Research with a Focus on Design for Human-Autonomy Teaming

This talk will provide an overview of Oregon State University's College of Engineering research enterprise. This will be complemented by a detailed review of the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute (https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/research/CoRIS ), including coverage of current Robotics and AI programs and research being conducted within CoRIS. The latter part of the talk will focus on current human-autonomy teaming (HAT) research, including a new design framework and empirical research on specific factors for system guidelines. A study of automation transparency in status communication with human UAV operators revealed positive effects of principled design for transparency on human performance, situation awareness and workload. CoRIS researchers are also working with the Corvallis (OR) Police Department in VR-based testing of quadruped design for transparent communication with officers in high-stakes patrol operations.