Militaries around the world, as well as other government agencies, are increasingly using uninhabited vehicles to perform dull, dirty and dangerous work in the United States, laws currently mandate their increasing use throughout the armed services, with set percentages of overall vehicle fleets. Currently, teams of people operate these vehicles, especially Uninhabited Air vehicles (UAVs). For example, n:1, where n is the number of operators and n > 1. The ultimate goal, and the object of much research, is the technology to lower, or even invert the control ratio from many people to one vehicle to one operator of several vehicles, e.g., 1:m, where m is the number of vehicles and m greater than or equal to 1. While the technology to automate these vehicles continues to progress at a rapid pace, less attention has been paid to the Human Factors aspect. Theoretically, technology exists to enable single operator control of multiple UAVs; however, the human operator must interact with the vehicle, especially if the vehicle will be used to apply deadly force. What information does the operator readily need to make these critical decisions. How will the human operators be able maintain the situational awareness of all vehicles under their control and make informed decisions as to their employment in dynamic situations. One possible aid to maintaining Situational Awareness is an overall Situational Awareness display that gives an overview of the vehicle locations, both geographically and in relation to one another. The question to be answered is whether this display adds useful information to the operator without further straining the operator's limited attention resources. Experiment participants were tasked to provide supervisory control of four simulated UAVs in a simulated environment and make tasking decisions for the UAVs based on static ground targets that required investigation.
Single Operator Control of Multiple Uninhabited Air Vehicles: Situational Awareness Requirement
2008
113 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Psychology , Psychiatry , Surveillance drones , Situational awareness , Control systems , Decision making , Theses , Human factors engineering , Autonomous navigation , Operators(Personnel) , Statics , Surface targets , Ratios , Simulation , Display systems , Multiple vehicle control , Uninhabited air systems , Uninhabited air vehicles , Uninhabited military vehicles , Unmanned air vehicles
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