  This invited paper discusses a new but important problem, supervised
autonomy, in the context of robotics. The paper defines supervised autonomy and
compares the supervised autonomy with robotic teleoperation and robotic full
autonomy. Based on the discussion, the significance of supervised autonomy was
introduced. The paper discusses the challenging and unsolved problems in
supervised autonomy, and reviews the related works in our research lab. Based
on the discussions, the paper draws the conclusion that supervised autonomy is
critical for applying robotic systems to address complicated problems in the
real world.
