CPS: Medium: Aerial Co-Workers: Augmenting Physical and Cognitive Human Capabilities

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Abstract

This project studies the algorithmic foundations and methodological frameworks to augment human capabilities via a novel form of physical and cognitive collaboration between human and multi-agent robotic systems, creating Aerial Co-Workers. These machines will actively collaborate with each other and with humans and tackle the fundamental gaps related to human-MAV collaboration at both physical and cognitive levels. The project is organized along two main thrust areas: Physical Collaboration and Cognitive Collaboration. The first thrust aims to significantly augment the physical ability of human workers by taking advantage of physical collaboration between the operator and a network of interconnected quadrotors, equipped with a set of flying hands", transporting objects. This will produce novel scientific solutions for human-robot collaborations to account for the complex legibility of the motions, and the variability of the relative positions of the agents. The second thrust aims to address two perception consensus problems to enable MAV-assisted augmented reality (AR) to augment the cognitive ability of operator(s). The key is to consistently collect, analyze, and display contextual information via multiple MAVs for effective and natural human-robot visual interactions. Aerial Co-Workers will get vantage viewpoints of the environment occluded from the humans which can be customized and augmented directly in the workspace to facilitate human actions via novel metric-semantic

Key facts

NSF award ID
2603416
Awardee
University of California-Berkeley (CA)
SAM.gov UEI
GS3YEVSS12N6
PI
Giuseppe Loianno
Primary program
01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (CPS), MEDIUM PROJECT, REU SUPP-Res Exp for Ugrd Supp
Estimated total
$874,936
Funds obligated
$392,764
Transaction type
Standard Grant
Period
10/01/2025 → 12/31/2026