Enabling dynamic delegation interactions with multiple unmanned vehicles; Flexibility from top to bottom

Abstract

A "delegation approach" to human interaction with automation should strive to achieve all of the flexibility that a human supervisor has in instructing, managing, redirecting and overriding well-trained human subordinates. But in the absence of human-like, natural-language understanding "androids", what would such interaction look like? This multi-year design and evaluation project explores such interaction concepts for pilot control of multiple remotely piloted systems. This paper details the underlying philosophy of delegation and presents many design innovations developed to date. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.