Two Chapters of Technical Report: Unmanned Military Vehicles - Human Factors of Augmenting the Force Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 8: Summary: Issues and Conclusions

Abstract

The terms of Reference (TOR) for the Task Group (TG) lists as its objective to seek to augment the force using uninhabited military vehicles (UMV's) by leveraging the potential advantages of UMV's to act as force multipliers. Since there are no truly uninhabited systems - operators will always be in the loop in some fashion - human factors issues become crucial to the successful operation of these systems. In modern asymmetric warfare, well-organized belligerents ignore the legal requirement under international law to be readily distinguished from the civilian population. They merge with the civilian population, they do not travel in identifiable military vehicles and the use sophisticated deception tactics. Thus, in modern warfare, it is very difficult for an autonomous machine to discriminate between civilians and military targets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA460149

Entities

People

  • John Reising
  • Mark Draper
  • Robert William Taylor

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Control Systems
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • International Law
  • Law
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Supervisory Control
  • Warfare

Readers

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  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction
  • Autonomy - UAVs