Autonomy Research Center for STEM

California State University, Northridge proposes to establish the Autonomy Research Center for STEM (ARCS), a sustainable multidisciplinary university center of excellence that will significantly contribute to NASA?s research in autonomy for civil aviation and space exploration, while transitioning and commercializing research results to address pressing industry and societal needs. In collaboration with researchers at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center and Je...

Dynamics of Trust Evolution and Calibration: A Field Study of Heterogeneous Human-Machine Teams with High Levels of Autonomy Operating in Contexts with Real Users, Real Systems, and Real Consequences

In the past decade, research on human machine team (HMT) trust has burgeoned. However, most studies have been limited to laboratory/simulation-based environments with a single operator interacting with the machine. While such studies are valuable in exploring solution approaches, there is a lack of...

Fire Student Active Volunteer Experiment (FireSAVE): Improving Fire Recovery Monitoring with In Situ Observations from Minority Serving Institutions in Southern California

The goals for this proposal are separated into two phases corresponding to the solicitation: Pilot Phase 1 (18 months, April 2021 ? September 2022) and Implementation Phase 2 (3 years, October 2022 ? September 2025). The goals for the Pilot Phase are as follows: G1: Develop a comprehensive field guide for field observations...