Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
12-21-2011
Publication Title
Humans and Automation Laboratory Technical Report
Abstract
MAVIES (Multi-Autonomous Vehicle Insertion-Extraction System) is the culmination of a year-long multi-stakeholder e ort between UTRC and the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT to design a human inter- face for insertion and extraction missions with multiple UAVs and option- ally piloted rotorcraft. The design process is a successful application of the Hybrid Cognitive Task Analysis (hCTA) process that tracks dozens of tasks, decision-making processes and their associated situation aware- ness requirements to determine the proper allocation of responsibilities between the human operator and the automated mission planner.
This paper discusses the various accomplishments through several phases of a disciplined process of planning, analysis, design, implementation and testing of the human interface; this process included cognitive walk- throughs and interviews with helicopter pilots as subject matter experts as well as integration with automation systems and mission and vehicle sim- ulation engines developed at UTRC. We also discuss ongoing novel e orts to model human operator mission performance and utilization when the operator simultaneously pilots their own vehicle and commands multiple "autonomous wingmen."
Recommended Citation
Jamie Macbeth, Manal Habib, Armen Mkrtchyan, Missy Cummings, ‘‘Multi- Autonomous Vehicle Insertion-Extraction System (MAVIES),’’ Humans and Automation Laboratory Technical Report HAL2011-04, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December, 2011
Comments
Archived as published.