28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-9.7.3

A CAPABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS UAVS: FROM A MISSION COMMANDER'S PERSPECTIVE

T. Chen, D. Campbell, G. Coppin*, M. Mooij**, F. Gonzalez
ARCAA, QUT, Australia; *TELECOM Bretagne, France; **D-CIS Lab, Netherland

Keywords: human machine interaction, information hierarchy, supervisory control, multiple heterogeneous uavs, capability framework visualisation

This paper presents a novel visual representation of UAVs' characteristics and Levels of Autonomy (LOAs), which allows the mission commander to obtain a sufficient understanding of each UAV's capability and varying LOA in search scenarios. Results illustrating the effect of the visualisation on test subjects' situation awareness will be presented.

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