Chapter II

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 Air Force Research Laboratory
Autonomy Science & Technology
Strategy

Dr Jim Overholt
AFRL Senior Scientist for Autonomous Systems
Kris Kearns
AFRL Portfolio Lead for Autonomy Research
Human Effectiveness Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory

With the support from many

AFRL Scientists and Researchers

Can be contacted through:

AF-autonomy@defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil
Integrity  Service  Excellence

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 AFRL Autonomy
Vision & Goals

Ensure operations in Demonstrate highly

complex, contested effective human-machine
environment teaming

Intelligent machines seamlessly integrated with

humans - maximizing mission performance in
complex and contested environments

Create actively
coordinated teams of
multiple machines

Ensure safe and effective systems in unanticipated & dynamic environments

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 AFRL Autonomy
Human-Machine Teaming

Ensure operations in Demonstrate highly

complex, contested effective human-machine
environment teaming

Intelligent machines seamlessly integrated with

humans - maximizing mission performance in
complex and contested environments

Create actively
coordinated teams of
multiple machines

Ensure safe and effective systems in unanticipated & dynamic environments

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 AFRL Autonomy
Human-Machine Teaming

Ensure operations in Demonstrate highly

complex, contested effective human-machine
environment teaming

Intelligent machines seamlessly integrated with

humans - maximizing mission performance in
•Enable & Calibrate
complextrust
and between
contestedhuman and machines
environments
• Develop common understanding and shared perception
between humans and machines
Create actively
• Create
coordinated anofenvironment for flexible and effective decision
teams
multiplemaking
machines

Ensure safe and effective systems in unanticipated & dynamic environments

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 Human-Machine Teaming
Technology Challenges

Human State Human- Task & Human & Data Fusion &
Sensing & Machine Cognitive Machine Understanding
Assessment Interaction Modeling Learning
• Objectively • Enable human • Task and • Adaptive, • Integrate human
measure and and machines to function learning and and machine
assess human’s communicate allocation for extended data (context,
state and share workload and mutual training time, format) for
(physiological, information decision-making between H & M a shared world
performance, balance model
behavioral)

Inter-relationship

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