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Task Versus Vehicle-Based Control Paradigms In Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Supervision By A Single Operator, Mary L. Cummings, Luca F. Bertuccelli, Jamie C. Macbeth, Amit Surana

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

There has recently been a significant amount of activity in developing supervisory control algorithms for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle operation by a single operator. While previous work has demonstrated the favorable impacts that arise in the introduction of increasingly sophisticated autonomy algorithms, little work has performed an explicit comparison of different types of multiple unmanned vehicle control architectures on operator performance and workload. This paper compares a vehicle-based paradigm (where a single operator individually assigns tasks to unmanned assets) to a task-based paradigm (where the operator generates a task list, which is then given to the group of vehicles that …