Research project

Trustworthy human-swarm partnerships in extreme environments

Project overview

The aim of this project was to understand the contextual factors and technical approaches underlying trustworthy human-swarm teams. 

The project drew on co-creation with partners and potential users to generate potential use cases and operator-centred requirements. AI-based algorithms were used to estimate the swarm state and provide recommendations for control actions to the human operators in extreme environments. 

The trustworthiness of the system was evaluated in a user study with a proof-of-concept HAC simulation and testing platform. 

Further information is available from the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub website.

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Katie Parnell BSc, EngD, C.ErgHF

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Road safety?
  • Aviation decision making
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Other researchers

Dr Mohammad Soorati Dr.Eng., MSc, BSc

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Multi-robot Systems
  • Human-swarm Interaction
  • Explainable AI?
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Jediah R. Clark, Mohammad Naiseh, Joel Fischer, Marise Galvez Trigo, Katie Parnell, Mario Brito, Adrian Bodenmann, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn & Mohammad Divband Soorati, 2022
Type: workingPaper