Human Factors Considerations in Migration of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Operator Control
Abstract
Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operator control can be migrated within temporal, physical, and functional domains. Although such control migrations occur in current UAS operations, there are no human factors studies specifically addressing this issue in UASs. This work sought to identify reasons for migrating UAS operator control and summarize the human factors literature with inferential bearing on this topic. Migration of UAS operator control is necessary to overcome limitations of the human operator, current technology, or both. There are potential advantages to control migration to include mitigating operator vigilance decrements and fatigue, facilitating operator task specialization, and optimizing workload during multi-aircraft and payload control tasks. However, there are also significant disadvantages to include transient degraded operator situational and systems awareness and more complex and potentially distributed teams of operators. Future work should focus on improving the empirical knowledge base on UAS human factors so evidence-based recommendations can be made when incorporating control migration in UAS design and operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA444925
Entities
People
- Anthony P. Tvaryanas