Shared Mental Models to Support Distributed Human-Robot Teaming in Space

Felix Gervits and Terry Fong and Matthias Scheutz

We extend our Shared Mental Model (SMM) interaction framework to show how it can be used to overcome some of the challenges inherent in distributed HRI and facilitate coordination in space robotics teams. We conducted an exploratory HRI study to identify potential benefits that the SMM mechanisms can afford in a task domain involving simulated free-flying robot assistants on a spacecraft. We found that the SMM framework offers advantages to task performance and team efficiency due to its support of shared knowledge representations.

@inproceedings{gervitsetal2018aiaa,
  title={Shared Mental Models to Support Distributed Human-Robot Teaming in Space},
  author={Felix Gervits and Terry Fong and Matthias Scheutz},
  year={2018},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Forum},
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/gervitsetal2018aiaa.pdf}
}