Trust Factors Identifying and Weighting for Trust Modeling in Soldier-Robot Teaming

Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Toronto Research Centre (TRC) has identified the concept of Soldier-Robot Teaming (SRT) as a way of improving mission effectiveness by leveraging enabling technologies such as robotics and autonomous systems. Establishing and maintaining the right level of trust between soldiers and robotic assets has been identified as a critical challenge for establishing effective SRT capabilities. Much research has been conducted in military human-autonomy teaming trust and trust relationship between the human and the autonomy. Yet, this body does not provide a path forward for using the various trust models developed or proposed. This paper carries out an in-depth literature survey of the various trust models and provides recommendations for using these models in a series of human factors engineering experimentation activities to identify and weight trust factors for SRT trust modeling tasks in coming years.