Human Factors of Remotely Operated Vehicles. 1st ed

CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv PREFACE: WHY HUMAN FACTORS OF "UNMANNED" SYSTEMS? xvii HUMAN FACTORS OF UAVs WORKSHOPS 1. CERI HUMAN FACTORS OF UAVs: 2004 AND 2005 WORKSHOP OVERVIEWS Olena Connor, Harry K. Pedersen, Nancy J. Cooke and Heather L. Pringle 3 2. UAV HUMAN FACTORS: OPERATOR PERSPECTIVES Harry K. Pedersen, Nancy J. Cooke, Heather L. Pringle and Olena Connor 21 HUMAN FACTORS ISSUES 3. REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES (ROVs) FROM THE TOP-DOWN AND THE BOTTOM-UP T. Oron-Gilad, J. Y. C. Chen and P. A. Hancock 37 v 4. SUPERVISORY CONTROL OF UNINHABITED COMBAT AIR VEHICLES FROM AN AIRBORNE BATTLE MANAGEMENT COMMAND AND CONTROL PLATFORM: HUMAN FACTORS ISSUES W. Todd Nelson and Robert S. Bolia 49 5. MODELING AND OPERATOR SIMULATIONS FOR EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ARMY UNMANNED VEHICLES: METHODS AND RESULTS Michael J. Barnes, Bruce P. Hunn and Regina A. Pomranky 59 6. UAV OPERATORS, OTHER AIRSPACE USERS, AND REGULATORS: CRITICAL COMPONENTS OF AN UNINHABITED SYSTEM Stephen B. Hottman and Kari Sortland 71 ERRORS, MISHAPS, AND ACCIDENTS 7. HUMAN ERRORS IN UAV TAKEOFF AND LANDING: THEORETICAL ACCOUNT AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS Avi Parush 91 8. HUMAN FACTORS IMPLICATIONS OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS: FLIGHT-CONTROL PROBLEMS Kevin W. Williams 105 9. HUMAN FACTORS IN U.S. MILITARY UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE ACCIDENTS Clarence E. Rash, Patricia A. LeDuc and Sharon D. Manning 117 vi CONTENTS 10. SPATIAL DISORIENTATION IN UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLES Brian P. Self, William R. Ercoline, Wesley A. Olson and Anthony P. Tvaryanas 133 THE ROV INTERFACE 11. MULTI-SENSORY INTERFACES FOR REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES Gloria L. Calhoun and Mark H. Draper 149 12. EVALUATION OF A TOUCH SCREEN-BASED OPERATOR CONTROL INTERFACE FOR TRAINING AND REMOTE OPERATION OF A SIMULATED MICRO-UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE Paula J. Durlach, John L. Neumann and Laticia D. Bowens 165 13. VIDEO IMAGERY’S ROLE IN NETWORK CENTRIC, MULTIPLE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) OPERATIONS Bruce P. Hunn 179 14. SPATIAL DIALOG AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES Wendell H. Chun, Thomas Spura, Frank C. Alvidrez and Randy J. Stiles 193 CONTROL OF MULTIPLE ROVs 15. WORKLOAD AND AUTOMATION RELIABILITY IN UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES Christopher D. Wickens, Stephen R. Dixon and Michael S. Ambinder 209 Contents vii 16. DESIGN OF A MULTI-VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM: SYSTEM DESIGN AND USER INTERACTION Shawn A. Weil, Jared Freeman, Jean MacMillan, Cullen D. Jackson, Elizabeth Mauer, Michael J. Patterson and Michael P. Linegang 223 17. SCALING-UP HUMAN CONTROL FOR LARGE UAV TEAMS Michael Lewis, Jumpol Polvichai, Katia Sycara and Paul Scerri 237 18. DELEGATION INTERFACES FOR HUMAN SUPERVISION OF MULTIPLE UNMANNED VEHICLES: THEORY, EXPERIMENTS, AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS Raja Parasuraman and Christopher Miller 251 19. OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE MODELING FOR THE CONTROL OF MULTIPLE UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLES FROM AN AIRBORNE PLATFORM Ming Hou and Robert D. Kobierski 267 TEAM CONTROL OF ROVs 20. ACQUIRING TEAM-LEVEL COMMAND AND CONTROL SKILL FOR UAV OPERATION Nancy J. Cooke, Harry K. Pedersen, Olena Connor, Jamie C. Gorman and Dee Andrews 285 21. A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ENHANCING COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION IN ROV TEAMS Ernest S. Park, Verlin B. Hinsz and Jared L. Ladbury 299 viii CONTENTS 22. GUIDING THE DESIGN OF A DEPLOYABLE UAV OPERATIONS CELL Janie A. DeJoode, Nancy J. Cooke, Steven M. Shope and Harry K. Pedersen 311 23. COGNITION AND COLLABORATION IN HYBRID HUMAN–ROBOT TEAMS: VIEWING WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE LENS OF MULTIMEDIA COGNITIVE LOAD Sandro Scielzo, Stephen M. Fiore, Florian Jentsch and Neal M. Finkelstein 329 ROVs ON THE GROUND 24. EXPLORING HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION: EMERGING METHODOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTS A. William Evans, III, Raegan M. Hoeft, Florian Jentsch, Sherri A. Rehfeld and Michael T. Curtis 345 25. SITUATION AWARENESS IN THE CONTROL OF UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES Jennifer M. Riley, Robin R. Murphy and Mica R. Endsley 359 26. WHAT THE ROBOT’S CAMERA TELLS THE OPERATOR’S BRAIN Roger A. Chadwick, Skye L. Pazuchanics and Douglas J. Gillan 373 SUBJECT INDEX 385