Wide Area Search Munitions (WASMs) combine the attributes of unmanned aerial vehicles with those of traditional munitions. The WASM concept envisions artificially intelligent munitions that communicate and coordinate with one another and with human operators to effectively to perform their tasks. This study examined target acquisition for unaided operators with that of an automated cooperative controller for a complex task involving the prosecution of ground-based targets. Participants completed nine trials ...
The use of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and micro air vehicles (MAVs) in military reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition (RSTA) missions is becoming increasingly widespread. The Supervisory Control Interfaces Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory is exploring interface design techniques to support multiple-UAV, single-operator employment concepts. These employment concepts require that a single operator monitor manage multiple vehicles and or sensors which may increase visual/cognitive workload and degrade ...
Prior research involving target detection when monitoring multiple video sources led to concerns about increased operator workload and degraded target detection performance as the number of video sources and visual search requirements increased. A study was conducted to examine the utility of smaller video displays to reduce visual scan and search demands when multiple video sources are monitored. Sixteen participated performed a target detection task involving one small video, one ...
This report consists of five parts. Part one introduces the concepts of human-in-the-loop (HITL) virtual simulation, modeling and constructive simulation, and the human as an information processor. Part two introduces the constructive modeling tool used in the current study, the Combat Automation Requirements Testbed (CART), and briefly reviews two recent case studies where it was applied. Part three describes the effort to develop an in-house constructive simulation capability. Part four ...
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