The Human-Machine Teaming (HMT) Laboratory provides 450 square feet of space for general computing and robot preparation and testing.

The HMT Laboratory currently is equipped with

• Three ActivMedia Pioneer 3-DX mobile robots with Linux on-board processors, rear ultrasonic sonar, gyroscope, and wireless Ethernet.
  • Two robots are equipped with PTZ (Pan, Tilt, Zoom) NTSC complete camera package
  • One robot is equipped with a complete Laser Range Finder package.

All computers and robots are connected to the departmental and University network. Available software includes a variety of general-purpose software as well as Java, C, and C++ software development environments; however, the main development environment is C and C++. A number of robotic simulator packages are available including Player/Stage and the USAR Simulator.

The HMT lab uses TechSmith’s MORAE usability evaluation software for conducting user evaluations. MORAE automatically records a number of evaluator specified objective interaction measures, records the human-software interactions into a video file, records evaluation participant audio and video, provides remote monitor of evaluations, etc. The HMT lab has successfully used MORAE to conduct a number of evaluations. The majority of these evaluations have been conducted in the laboratory, but the lab has also conducted remote user evaluations via TechSmith’s UserVue capabilities.