A Human-Centric Design Process for Highly Autonomous Unmanned Air Systems

Abstract

The paper will propose that for effective operation of highly complex and intelligent systems a human and machine team must be developed. It will detail research addressing delivery of unprecedented levels of unmanned system intelligence and the concomitant need to establish the operator in a teamed arrangement. It will discuss the impact of the teaming on the operator and so build the case for human system integration to be a necessary part of intelligent system design rather than it being treated as an afterthought. A case study will be described whereby technology has been developed over a period of 10 + years to enable 4 unmanned combat air vehicles to be controlled by a single operator by adopting a "teaming" approach. Trials in both the synthetic environment and flight will be outlined.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA567806

Entities

People

  • D. Richards
  • J. A. Whitby
  • J. T. Platts

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automatic Pilots
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Control Systems
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Supervisory Control
  • Systems Engineering
  • Target Recognition
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

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