Assessing Operator Strategies for Real-time Replanning of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles

Future unmanned vehicles systems will invert the operator-to-vehicle ratio so that one operator controls a decentralized network of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles. This study examines the impact of allowing an operator to adjust the rate of prompts to view automation-generated plans on system perfo...

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Main Authors: Clare, A.S (Author), Maere, P.C.P (Author), Cummings, M.L (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Intelligent Decision Technologies, 2014-05-14T18:17:15Z.
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520 |a Future unmanned vehicles systems will invert the operator-to-vehicle ratio so that one operator controls a decentralized network of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles. This study examines the impact of allowing an operator to adjust the rate of prompts to view automation-generated plans on system performance and operator workload. Results showed that the majority of operators chose to adjust the replan prompting rate. The initial replan prompting rate had a significant framing effect on the replan prompting rates chosen throughout a scenario. Higher initial replan prompting rates led to significantly lower system performance. Operators successfully self-regulated their task-switching behavior to moderate their workload. 
520 |a This research is funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Aurora Flight Sciences. 
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