Human-autonomy teaming patterns in the command and control of teams of autonomous systems

Abstract

Design patterns have been found useful in several domains. This paper helps motivate their use in the field of human-autonomy teaming and provides three example patterns that could be contributed to the language of patterns available to system developers. In our examples we focus on the motivations and consequences in terms of human and team performance when describing the features of the individual patterns. These replace forces more commonly used in software engineering or other fields. Practitioners and researchers alike will benefit from a vetted vocabulary of established patterns of the form presented.