| Week
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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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