Lindsey Coffee-Johnson

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

Week 2

• Researched topics on deception and manipulation and how to recognize them
• Started learning about ROS
• Met with advisor to discuss progress so far
• Read about elder abuse by caregivers and methods for detecting it (has the potential to serve as a model for intrusion detection in caregiving robots)
• Attended working lunch to discuss how to give an effective presentation on research
• Completed Section 1 of Responsible Conduct of Research course

Week 3

• Completed Sections 2 and 3 of Responsible Conduct of Research--Finished
• Continued exploring ROS and code from previous project
• Met with Dr. Perouli to discuss progress
• Attended Responsible Conduct of Research training
• Worked with TurtleBots to get them running
• Read online tutorials for ROS, TurtleBots, and related material
• Researched current models of social robots

Week 4

• Continued troubleshooting TurtleBots
• Setup Catkin workspace with code from previous project on a TurtleBot
• Outlined broad and specific behaviors of a "normally functioning" caretaker robot
• Outlined anomalous robot behavior and definitive signs of intrusion
• Met with Dr. Perouli to discuss progress and issues with TurtleBots
• Started to outline final research report
• Outlined requirements for intrusion detection "questionnaire" given the circumstance of its use

Week 5

• Compiled potential questionnaire questions from existing tools
• Met with Dr. Perouli to discuss progress and further steps on looking into Natural Language Processing (NLP) and network monitoring
• Prepared Midway presentation
• Explored TurtleBot simulators
• Gave 10 minute midway presentation on research and listened to other REU presentations
• Got Gazebo working and simulated a TurtleBot 2 moving
• Read material on networks and network monitoring
• Researched NLP topics and sources relevant to audio monitoring

Week 6

• Explored multi-TurtleBot simulation in Gazebo
• Researched the Content Validity Index in relation to questionnaires
• Looked through some of Drew Williams' publications for relevant elements
• Attended working lunch to learn about LaTex
• Moved final report outline to a LaTex project and continued working on report
• Started assembling bibliography in a bibtex file

Week 7

• Continued working on paper and bibliography
• Met with Dr. Perouli to discuss progress and troubles with TurtleBot simulator
• Looked into current open source tools for network monitoring
• Continued exploring solutions to server simulation in Gazebo (without much luck, unfortunately)
• Collected more sources on validation of abuse screening tools
• Researched capability and availability for speech to text in Amazon Echo

Week 8

• Continued research on capabilities and cost of speech-to-text
• Met with Dr. Perouli to discuss paper
• Looked through Dan Cronce's research notes and material on ROS
• Finished research poster
• Worked on research paper

Week 9

• Reviewed previous final research paper for synthesis with new work
• Met with Dr. Perouli to discuss progress and plans for the final REU week
• Started working on combining previous work into a separate research paper
• Had a conference call with Dan Cronce to discuss previous work and possible TurtleBot simulations
• Continued work on final research paper