Mission specialist interfaces in unmanned aerial systems

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) involve a human-robot team [6, 7, 14, 21]. For the purposes of this discussion, the UAS human-robot team is defined as the human personnel primarily responsible for UAS flight, navigation, and acquisition of mission-related information and will exclude consumers of information without direct control over the payload or platform (referred to as “knowledge workers” in [22]). Human team members may be co-located with the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or at a remote location, and, depending on the type of UAV and mission, can vary in number. Additionally, human team member roles may overlap.