A Taxonomy of Human-Robot Teamwork Requirements
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Autonomous systems are increasingly deployed in safety- and mission-critical domains where humans and robots must operate as a team to complete complex tasks. Existing requirements for Human-Robot teamwork remain fragmented across disparate sources, with no unified framework that addresses complexities of collaborative human-robot tasks. We address this gap by presenting a taxonomy of Human-Robot teamwork requirements derived from analysis of standards, regulatory guidance and the literature, both academic and industrial. We extracted 361 requirements from 14 cross-domain sources. Through iterative classification and refinement, we develop a two-level hierarchical taxonomy comprising 6 high-level categories and 21 lower-level subcategories that distinguish information provision, relational control, decision support, safety mechanisms, performance monitoring, and foundational system capabilities. Our taxonomy addresses both conceptual clarity (defining what constitutes Human-Robot teamwork requirements) and practical applicability (supporting requirement elicitation in real systems). To assess the validity of this framework, we conduct an expert evaluation with several domain specialists. We further examine how requirements distribute across Human-Led, Robot-Led and Shared operational perspectives, revealing responsibility boundaries that shape safe collaboration. This work provides a structured foundation for requirements engineering practitioners to systematically elicit and specify Human-Robot teamwork capabilities in critical domains, enabling reliable integration of autonomous systems into cyber-physical teams.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Wed 19 AugDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:30 | Safety-Critical and Autonomous SystemsResearch Papers / RE@Next! Papers at A-1300 Chair(s): Marian Daun Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt | ||
11:00 30mTalk | MOMUx: A Catalyst for Discovering Situational Awareness and Team Coordination Requirements for Human-Autonomy Teaming Research Papers Johanna Olesk University of Notre Dame, Arturo Miguel Russell Bernal University of Notre Dame, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame | ||
11:30 30mTalk | A Taxonomy of Human-Robot Teamwork Requirements Research Papers Anastasia Mavridou KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, Hazel Taylor The University of Manchester, Sandy Lozito NASA Ames Research Center, Louise Dennis The University of Manchester, Michael Fisher University of Manchester, UK, Marie Farrell The University of Manchester Pre-print | ||
12:00 30mTalk | Stakeholder-Adaptive Safety Report Generation Using RAG and GSN RE@Next! Papers Hayato Kato Nihon University, Michio HAYASHI TIER IV North America, Tomoyuki TSUCHIYA TIER IV, Minami Yoda Nihon University, Yutaka Matsuno Nihon University | ||