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Paper Abstract
Those applying autonomous technologies to military systems strive to enhance human-robot and robot-robot
performance. Beyond performance, the military must be concerned with local area security. Characterized as "secure
mobility", military systems must enable safe and effective terrain traversal concurrent with maintenance of situational
awareness (SA). One approach to interleaving these objectives is supervisory control, with popular options being shared
and traded control. Yet, with the scale and expense of military assets, common technical issues such as transition time
and safeguarding become critical; especially as they interact with Soldier capabilities. Study is required to enable
selection of control methods that optimize Soldier-system performance while safeguarding both individually. The current
report describes a study utilizing experimental military vehicles and simulation systems enabling teleoperation and
supervisory control. Automated triggering of SA demands was interspersed with a set of challenging driving maneuvers
in a 'teleoperation-like' context to examine the influence of supervisory control on Soldier-system performance. Results
indicated that direct application of supervisory control, while beneficial under particular demands, requires continued
development to be perceived by Soldiers as useful. Future efforts should more tightly couple the information exchanged
between the Soldier and system to overcome current challenges not addressed by standard control methods.
Paper Details
Date Published: 7 May 2010
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 7692, Unmanned Systems Technology XII, 769206 (7 May 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.850597
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7692:
Unmanned Systems Technology XII
Grant R. Gerhart; Douglas W. Gage; Charles M. Shoemaker, Editor(s)
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 7692, Unmanned Systems Technology XII, 769206 (7 May 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.850597
Show Author Affiliations
Jason S. Metcalfe, DCS Corp. (United States)
Jillyn Alban, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States)
Keryl Cosenzo, U.S. Army Research Lab. (United States)
Jillyn Alban, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr. (United States)
Keryl Cosenzo, U.S. Army Research Lab. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7692:
Unmanned Systems Technology XII
Grant R. Gerhart; Douglas W. Gage; Charles M. Shoemaker, Editor(s)
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