CfP: Extended Deadline - Variable Autonomy for human-robot Teaming research collection/topic in the Frontiers in Robotics and AI

[Bruno Lacerda]

Dear colleagues,

We extended the submission deadline to 18/10/2023. Please take a look below for more info.

We cordially invite papers/contributions to the “Variable Autonomy for Human-Robot Teaming” research collection/topic in the Frontiers in Robotics and AI journal.

As robots are introduced to various domains and applications, Human-Robot Teaming capabilities are essential. This collection is driven by the timely need to bring together Variable Autonomy-related research within Human-Robot Teaming that is often disconnected across different communities as the field is relatively young.

Important Info:

New Submission deadline: 18/10/2023      

Details about the collection/topic and submission: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/55089/variable-autonomy-for-human-robot-teaming

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Further topic details:

As robots are introduced to various domains and applications, Human-Robot Teaming (HRT) capabilities are essential. Such capabilities involve teaming with humans in, on, or out-the-loop at different levels of abstraction, leveraging the complementing capabilities of humans and robots. This requires robotic systems with the ability to dynamically vary their level or degree of autonomy to collaborate with the human(s) efficiently and overcome various challenging circumstances. Variable Autonomy (VA) encompasses such research, including but not limited to shared control and shared autonomy, mixed-initiative, adjustable autonomy, sliding autonomy, and adaptive automation.

A complete Variable Autonomy human-robot system benefits from research in various fields as it needs to tackle a plethora of challenges. Such challenges include: planning and decision-making (including determining the appropriate level of decision-making), control, interfaces, modelling of human behaviour and motion (including human intent and Theory of Mind), human factors (for example, cognitive workload, situation awareness, and experience), and autonomous capabilities such as perception, navigation, manipulation, mapping and exploration. This collection is driven by the timely need to bring together Variable Autonomy-related research and practices often disconnected across different communities as the field is relatively young. The collection’s goal is to consolidate research in Variable Autonomy.

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We invite contributions on the following topics (but not limited):

Given the complexity and span of Variable Autonomy Human-Robot systems, we welcome contributions to all aspects of Variable Autonomy:

• Variable Autonomy paradigms and arbitration methods for Human-Robot Teaming and HRI (including shared control and shared autonomy, mixed-initiative, human-initiative, adaptable/adaptive autonomy etc.)
• Trustworthy Variable Autonomy, Human-Robot Teaming and HRI
• Transparency and explainability of AI in HRI, Human-Robot Teaming, and Variable Autonomy
• Human Factors and human experience
• Modelling of human behaviour, intent, and trust in the system
• Situation awareness for context-dependent Human-Robot Teaming
• Interfaces for Variable Autonomy and Human-Robot Teaming
• Practical work/experiments with Variable Autonomy robotic systems- Integration work in which different Variable Autonomy components are integrated and the Variable Autonomy robotic system is tested in systematic experiments.
• Testbeds, experimental design and evaluation methods for Variable Autonomy
  

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The topic editors:

Manolis Chiou | Uni. of Birmingham

Bruno Lacerda | University of Oxford

Andreas Theodorou | Umeå universitet

Simon Rothfuß | Bosch

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Senior Researcher in Robotics

Oxford Robotics Institute

Department of Engineering Science

University of Oxford

https://ori.ox.ac.uk/people/bruno-lacerda/