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Autonomy Level Specification for Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles: Interim Progress Report Hui-Min Huang, Elena Messina, James Albus National Institute of Standards and Technology Intelligent Systems Division Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8230 { hui-min.huang, elena.messina, james.albus }@ Abstract As unmanned systems become widely employed in various applications, it is critical to have a set of standard definitions and metrics for specifying and evaluating the systems in terms of their levels of autonomy. Developing autonomy levels for unmanned systems is a complex issue that has to take into account many factors such as task complexity, human interaction, environmental difficulty, mission and system dependence, and quality factors. We report on a workshop that addresses this issue. 1. Introduction Unmanned vehicles have been fielded in several domains in the recent past, ranging from battlefields to Mars. Most major efforts have been funded by various U. S. Government agencies. As the number of programs for developing unmanned systems (UMS) accelerates within government, there is a growing need for characterizing these systems. Individual government agencies have begun these efforts. The Department of Defense Joint Program Office (JPO), the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have, in separate but related efforts, described levels of robotic behaviors for the Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) program [1, 2, 3]. The Air Force Research Laboratory has established Autonomous Control Levels (ACL) [4]. The Army Science Board has described a set of levels of autonomy [5]. It is imperative that these and other agencies leverage each other’s efforts and aim at a government wide consistent approach.