Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Unmanned Ground Vehicle Teaming: UAV Guided Navigation

Abstract

We simulated a military reconnaissance environment and examined the performance of ground robotics operators who needed to use sensor images from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to navigate their ground robot to the locations of the targets. We also evaluated participants spatial ability and examined if it affected their performance or perceived workload. Results showed that participants overall performance (speed and accuracy) was better when they had access to images from larger UAVs with fixed orientations, compared to other UAV conditions (baseline- no UAV, micro-air vehicle, and UAV with orbiting views). Participants experienced the highest workload when the UAV was orbiting.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA481627

Entities

People

  • Bryan R. Clark
  • Jessie Y. Chen

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Computers
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Micro Air Vehicles
  • Military Operations
  • Navigation
  • Psychology
  • Robotics
  • Robots
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Vehicles
  • Video Games

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  • Computer Vision.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers