Human-Machine Teaming for UAVs: An Experimentation Platform
This addresses the need for tools to develop and evaluate human-machine teaming algorithms in critical systems like defense, though it is incremental as it builds on existing platforms.
The researchers tackled the lack of lightweight experimentation platforms for human-AI teaming in defense environments by presenting the Cogment platform, which enables interactions between humans and multiple AI agents, including learning and static agents, and has been used in academic research.
Full automation is often not achievable or desirable in critical systems with high-stakes decisions. Instead, human-AI teams can achieve better results. To research, develop, evaluate, and validate algorithms suited for such teaming, lightweight experimentation platforms that enable interactions between humans and multiple AI agents are necessary. However, there are limited examples of such platforms for defense environments. To address this gap, we present the Cogment human-machine teaming experimentation platform, which implements human-machine teaming (HMT) use cases that features heterogeneous multi-agent systems and can involve learning AI agents, static AI agents, and humans. It is built on the Cogment platform and has been used for academic research, including work presented at the ALA workshop at AAMAS this year [1]. With this platform, we hope to facilitate further research on human-machine teaming in critical systems and defense environments.