Designing for Humans in Autonomous Systems: Military Applications
Abstract
The purpose of this report is to review U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)-sponsored research on the human s role in future autonomous systems and to derive design guidelines to foster human/autonomy collaboration. The research was conducted as part of a larger Army program, Safe Operations for Unmanned systems for Reconnaissance in Complex Environments (SOURCE), that focused on developing safe autonomy for urban applications. The human-autonomy design research encompasses agent reliability, span of control, safety issues, individual differences, training, function allocation, and results from field experiments evaluating advanced interface solutions. The main sections of this report cover (1) autonomy and intelligent agents, (2) RoboLeader, (3) safety for autonomous systems, (4) naturalistic interfaces, and (5) situation understanding using unmanned vehicle imagery. After each section, implications of the results are summarized to develop design guidelines for incorporating humans into autonomous military systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA598472
Entities
People
- Arthur W. Evans Iii
- Elizabeth Redden
- Florian Jentsch
- Jessie Y. Chen
- Linda Elliott
- Michael J. Barnes
- Tal Oron-Gilad
Organizations
- United States Army Research Laboratory