The inherent components of unmanned vehicle situation awareness

The purpose of this paper is to present an initial delineation of the inherent components required for unmanned vehicles to possess situation awareness. A broadly adapted human situation awareness definition is directly applied to the notion of unmanned vehicle situation awareness. This work focuses on identifying the inherent components of unmanned vehicle situation based upon the components of human situation awareness. The presented work is foundational for developing a holistic unmanned vehicle situation awareness architecture. It is hypothesized that unmanned vehicles that possess situation awareness will better accommodate dynamic situations while improving human-robotic interaction.