Executive decision support

Author

Ding, Xu Chu ; Powers, Matthew ; Egerstedt, Magnus ; Young, Shih-yih (Ryan) ; Balch, Tucker

Author_Institution

Georgia Robot. & Intell. Syst., GA

Volume

16

Issue

2

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

81

Abstract

One challenge facing coordination and deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) today is the amount of human involvement needed to carry out a successful mission. Currently, control and coordination of UAVs typically involves multiple operators to control a single agent. The aim of this article is to invert this relationship, enabling a single pilot to control and coordinate a group of UAVs. Furthermore, decision support is provided to the pilot to facilitate effective control of the UAV team. In the scenario envisioned in this article, the human operator (the pilot) is operating along-side a team of UAVs. The pilot communicates with the UAV team remotely and controls the UAV team to execute a surveillance mission.

Keywords

decision support systems; military aircraft; remotely operated vehicles; surveillance; telecontrol; decision support; human operator; single-agent control; surveillance mission; unmanned aerial vehicles; Automatic control; Displays; Humans; Remotely operated vehicles; Resumes; Robot control; Robot kinematics; Supervisory control; Surveillance; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9932

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MRA.2009.932526

Filename

5069838