Short Title:
Autonomous Teams (Resilient, Adaptive, Self-sustaining Teams)
Responsible HRP Element:
Behavioral Health and Performance
Collaborating Org(s):
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Behavioral Health & Performance (BHP) Element |
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Funding Status:
Completed - Task completed and produced a deliverable
Procurement Mechanism(s):
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Aims:
The effort falls within the Research Focus of Team Autonomy and directly examines three of the Team Autonomy research questions posed in the NRA:
1) How can individuals be selected who will thrive in an autonomous environment?
2) How should teams be composed to form a high-performing autonomous team?
3) What additional training techniques must be developed to support these teams?
The proposed program of research focuses directly on:
• PRD Risk: Performance Decrements due to Inadequate Team Cooperation,
Coordination, Communication, and Psychosocial Adaptation.
•Team Gap 8: We need to identify psychological and psychosocial factors, measures, and combinations thereof that can be used to compose highly effective crews for autonomous, long duration and/or distance exploration missions.
Each of the deliverables specified in the technical proposal are designed to address the NRA research questions, PRD Risk, and IRP Gap noted above.
In support of NRA questions 1 and 2 regarding crew member selection and team composition,
a series of evidence-based contextually relevant guidelines and recommendations for team formation, including the identification of options and related criteria will be delivered.
In support of NRA question 3 regarding training techniques to support autonomous teams, a white paper of self-sustainment countermeasures; a framework linking diagnostics with countermeasures; a prototype of a diagnostic-driven team self-sustainment countermeasure; guidelines for conducting pre-mission team training that prepares teams for self-sustainment during missions; and specifications for an automated, diagnostic-driven, Team Autonomous Self-Development and Sustainment (TAS2) module, will be provided.
In addition, diagnostics, criteria measures, and a new research methodology that can be used in future NASA research efforts that examine the PRD Risk and IPR Gap targeted in the proposal. In sum, this project aims to make advancements that will help NASA mitigate the risk of performance decrements during LDSE missions.
Ground Analog Resources
Ground-Based Flight Analogs
- Controlled Research Analog, Short Duration (2 months or less) – isolated and confined with spaceflight mission scenario [e.g., HERA, NEEMO]
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Number of Subjects
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36
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Other Resources
Other Resources Needed?
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Yes
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Category:
Requirement
Subcategory:
Guidelines/Criteria
Description:
Recommendations regarding team composition for long duration, automous missions
Internal Customers:
Behavioral Health and Performance
External Customers:
None