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==Project Description==
 
 
Several industries, such as healthcare and hospitality, are investigating the benefits of using social and service robots to cover some of their customers' needs. For example, a robot could interact with an older adult to decrease the feeling of loneliness or a robot could deliver items such as food or towels to a hotel guest. Successful deployment of social and service robots will likely lead to the introduction of more robotic units in the facility resulting in the formation of a swarm.
 
 
The objective of this project is to develop techniques that detect a hacked robot in the context of a small swarm (three to four robots). The project will focus on two types of abnormal robot behavior:
 
 
* The robot's location is different from the location it should have. This type of abnormality includes the robot spending significantly more or less time at a location that it was supposed to visit.
 
* The robot's psychological impact on the customer is negative.
 
 
==Milestones and Goals==
 
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!Week
 
!Description
 
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| Week 1: Orientation
 
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* Familiarize with Marquette, project and mentor
 
* Set milestones and goals for the project duration
 
* Start reading related literature on trust in the context of human-robot interaction and intrusion detection
 
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| Week 2: Study Related Work
 
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* Read related literature with an emphasis on cognitive science topics related to persuasion, deception and manipulation, as well as security in cyber physical systems (CPS) and fault tolerance.
 
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| Week 3: Learn About TurtleBots
 
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* Learn how to program TurtleBots
 
* Explore the Robot Operating System (ROS) and simulator
 
* Install and run Python programs developed by Dan Cronce during previous REU project
 
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| Week 4: Form Research Hypothesis
 
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* Specify assumptions
 
** Tasks that each robot will perform (normal behavior)
 
** Acts that will constitute proof of hacking (abnormal behavior)
 
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| Week 5: Design Methodology to Support or Disprove Hypothesis
 
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* Experiments for the part of the project related to hacking the robot's location
 
* Comparisons to existing cognitive science studies for the part of the project related to the psychological impact on consumer
 
* Give midway presentation
 
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| Week 6: Start Writing Paper
 
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* Complete the first part of the paper
 
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| Week 7: Build System
 
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* Build system needed to run the experiments with the TurtleBot 2 robots
 
* Collect any additional related work evidence
 
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| Week 8: Run Experiments
 
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* Run experiments on TurtleBots
 
* Detail comparisons of the suggested technique for identifying intrusion detection to existing literature
 
* Prepare final poster on research
 
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| Week 9: Test hypothesis
 
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* If needed, rerun experiments
 
* Consider future work
 
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| Week 10: Presenting Research
 
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* Present at poster session
 
* Prepare and give oral presentation
 
* Finish and submit final paper
 
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==Weekly Log==
 
==Weekly Log==

Revision as of 15:49, 1 June 2018

Weekly Log

Week 1

  • Attended orientation
  • Went on library tour and learned about research resources
  • Met with mentor to discuss project
  • Learned about wiki and updated it
  • Read paper on related project
  • Set goals and milestones for the summer
  • Read related literature on the topic of trust as it relates to human-robot interaction