Traclabs Inc. — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: Z3
Traclabs Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Obligated amount $124,898. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $124,898
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- Z3
- Solicitation
- SBIR_21_P1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2021-05-13 → 2021-11-19
Description
NASA envisions OSAM solutions that involve heterogeneous teams of coordinated service robots. nbsp;It will be infeasible to effectively coordinate such teams using existing teleoperation techniques. nbsp;To alleviate this issue, TRACLabs is proposing a framework to enhance perceptual feedback and decrease the cognitive load on operatorsnbsp;by building upon ideas from active perception, sliding autonomynbsp;andnbsp;nbsp;task-level commanding. The resulting system, which we call ACES (Autonomous Cobots to Enhance Situational Awareness), will autonomously position additional robots or sensor systems not currently engaged in a task to autonomously obtain additional meaningfulnbsp;percepts to enhance situational awareness, thus increasing the likelihood of successful task completion.