The Sea-RAI project is investigating the use of roles and persona as naturalistic representations of the interchangeable capabilities and responsibilities of robot, humans, and software agents. It is also establishing the baseline for human-robot interaction and ratios with these vehicles and their unusual sensors and sensor viewpoints.

Additional research objectives include exploring remote shared visual presence as a mechanism to reduce the human-robot ratio, expanding a novel class of algorithms developed by USF for intelligently managing bandwidth, and enabling complete "black-box" data collection and playback through the SARGE simulator.