A New Single-Display Intelligent Adaptive Interface for Controlling a Group of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones in different civil and military operations has attracted the attentions of many researchers and science communities. One of the most notable challenges in this field is supervising and controlling a group or a team of UAVs by a single user. Thereupon, we propose a new intelligent adaptive interface (IAI) to overcome this challenge. Our proposed IAI is not only empowered by comprehensive IAI architecture but also has some notable features like presenting a single-display user interface for controlling a UAV team, leveraging the user cognitive model to deliver the right information at the right time, supporting the user by the system behavior explanation, and guiding and helping the user to choose the right decisions. Finally, we examine the developed IAI with the contribution of eleven volunteers and in three different scenarios. The results obtained show the power of the proposed IAI to reduce the workload and to increase the user's situation awareness level, and as a result, to promote the mission completion percentage.