Traclabs Inc. — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: Z3

Traclabs Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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.