Interests

In general, my research interests include Complex Man-Machine Systems that employ Artificial Intelligence; coordination and cooperation of robotic and human teams; software agents; Human-Computer Interaction as well as Human Factors.

The Human-Machine Teaming laboratory was established in September 2003 by Julie A. Adams. The purpose of the laboratory is to investigate and advance issues in Complex Man-Machine Systems interaction with a primary focus on human-robotic interaction. Research focuses on developing interaction for multiple robotic systems and developing distributed artificially intelligent algorithms to support human-robotic interaction.

Prior

I spent the summer of 2001 working at Johnson Space Center as an ASEE/NASA Summer Faculty Fellow. My project was to develop a Remote Intelligent Health Monitoring (RIHM) demonstration for Robonaut. Robonaut is a tele-operatored Humaniod robot that will eventually be deployed on the International Space Station Alpha to assist astronauts during space walks.

I spent the summer of 2002 working at Cornell University with Dr. Raffaelo D'Andrea. We are advising Cornell and Cal Tech participants in the SURF program. The students were creating mobile robot teams to compete against each other in the RoboFlag domain.