scholarly journals Design and evaluation of UAV ground control station by considering human factors standards and guidelines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taiwo Amida
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Ground Control ◽  
Task Load ◽  
Ground Control Station ◽  
Programming Techniques ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Commercial Off The Shelf ◽  
Nasa Task Load Index

The majority of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) accidents can be directly related to human error. For this reason, standards and guidelines focusing on human factors have been published by various organizations such as Transport Canada, FAA, EASA, NASA and military agencies. The objective of this thesis is to present a methodology for designing a Ground Control Station (GCS) using available standards and guidelines for human factors. During the design process, a detailed analysis was performed using human factors methods to ensure all requirements were met; each phase of the design follows the guidelines presented in the compiled human factors standards and guidelines. The GCS interface was developed using advanced programming techniques and commercial off-the-shelf software. Moreover, an operator workload evaluation was carried out using NASA task load index for validation of design methodology. It was found that the applied methodology not only improved the pilot workload, but also ensured that all user and stakeholders’ requirements are met.

scholarly journals Design and evaluation of UAV ground control station by considering human factors standards and guidelines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taiwo Amida
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Ground Control ◽  
Task Load ◽  
Ground Control Station ◽  
Programming Techniques ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Commercial Off The Shelf ◽  
Nasa Task Load Index

The majority of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) accidents can be directly related to human error. For this reason, standards and guidelines focusing on human factors have been published by various organizations such as Transport Canada, FAA, EASA, NASA and military agencies. The objective of this thesis is to present a methodology for designing a Ground Control Station (GCS) using available standards and guidelines for human factors. During the design process, a detailed analysis was performed using human factors methods to ensure all requirements were met; each phase of the design follows the guidelines presented in the compiled human factors standards and guidelines. The GCS interface was developed using advanced programming techniques and commercial off-the-shelf software. Moreover, an operator workload evaluation was carried out using NASA task load index for validation of design methodology. It was found that the applied methodology not only improved the pilot workload, but also ensured that all user and stakeholders’ requirements are met.

scholarly journals Enhancing the functional design of a multi-touch UAV ground control station.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Haber
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Ground Control ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Functional Design ◽  
Motion Simulation ◽  
Touch Gestures ◽  
Ground Control Station ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Commercial Off The Shelf

This thesis presents a reconfigurable Ground Control Station designed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle use, which utilizes multi-touch gesture inputs as well as the ability for the operator to personalize where the instruments they interact with are located on screen. The Ground Control Station that is presented was designed and developed in Ryerson University’s Mixed-Reality Immersive Motion Simulation Laboratory utilizing commercial off the shelf programs supplied by Presagis. Presagis’ VAPS XT 4.1 beta was used to design and develop the actual Ground Control Station’s User Interface due to its ability to create high quality interfaces for aircraft that harness multi-touch gestures. While FlightSIM 14 was used to simulate a high fidelity aircraft being controlled by the Ground Control Station. The final interface was comprised of six key features and 12 different instrument panels that could be manipulated by the operator to control a simulated aircraft throughout a virtual environment.

scholarly journals Assessment of UAV operator workload in a reconfigurable multi-touch ground control station environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-216
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Haber ◽  
Joon Chung
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Ground Control ◽  
Task Load ◽  
Touch Gestures ◽  
Ground Control Station ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Commercial Off The Shelf ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Operator Workload

Multi-touch computer inputs allow users to interact with a virtual environment through the use of gesture commands on a monitor instead of a mouse and keyboard. This style of input is easy for the human mind to adapt to because gestures directly reflect how one interacts with the natural environment. This paper presents and assesses a personal-computer-based unmanned aerial vehicle ground control station that utilizes multi-touch gesture inputs and system reconfigurability to enhance operator performance. The system was developed at Ryerson University’s Mixed-Reality Immersive Motion Simulation Laboratory using commercial-off-the-shelf Presagis software. The ground control station was then evaluated using NASA’s task load index to determine if the inclusion of multi-touch gestures and reconfigurability provided an improvement in operator workload over the more traditional style of mouse and keyboard inputs. To conduct this assessment, participants were tasked with flying a simulated aircraft through a specified number of waypoints, and had to utilize a payload controller within a predetermined area. The task load index results from these flight tests have initially shown that the developed touch-capable ground control station improved operator workload while reducing the impact of all six related human factors.

scholarly journals Enhancing the functional design of a multi-touch UAV ground control station.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Haber
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Ground Control ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Functional Design ◽  
Motion Simulation ◽  
Touch Gestures ◽  
Ground Control Station ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Commercial Off The Shelf

This thesis presents a reconfigurable Ground Control Station designed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle use, which utilizes multi-touch gesture inputs as well as the ability for the operator to personalize where the instruments they interact with are located on screen. The Ground Control Station that is presented was designed and developed in Ryerson University’s Mixed-Reality Immersive Motion Simulation Laboratory utilizing commercial off the shelf programs supplied by Presagis. Presagis’ VAPS XT 4.1 beta was used to design and develop the actual Ground Control Station’s User Interface due to its ability to create high quality interfaces for aircraft that harness multi-touch gestures. While FlightSIM 14 was used to simulate a high fidelity aircraft being controlled by the Ground Control Station. The final interface was comprised of six key features and 12 different instrument panels that could be manipulated by the operator to control a simulated aircraft throughout a virtual environment.

Psychosocial Factors, Workload, and Human Error in a Simulated Pharmacy Dispensing Task

2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Grasha ◽  
Kraig Schell
Keyword(s):  
Social Stress ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Performance Model ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Product Selection ◽  
Task Load ◽  
Nasa Task Load Index ◽  
Relationship Of

Participants filled 42 orders on a task designed to simulate components of filling prescriptions. Task factors included objective workload of 70- versus 80-min. to complete the task and perceptions of workload dimensions using the NASA Task Load Index. The proportion and pattern of data-entry, counting, and product-selection errors were compatible with those found in pharmacy field-sites. Significant other relationship stress, field-dependence, and an 80-min. workpace predicted data-entry errors. Mistakes in product selection were associated with low GPA, high social stress, the NASA Task Load Index dimension of less concern with performing well, and a 70-min. workpace. Relationship of data to corresponding information in the pharmacy literarure and to assumptions of a cognitive-systems performance model was discussed.

Software Support for Ground Control Station for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mlađan Jovanovic´ ◽  
Dusˇan Starcˇevic´ ◽  
Zoran Jovanovic´
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ground Control ◽  
Real Time System ◽  
Software Support ◽  
Representation Systems ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Ground Control Station ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

Uninhabited vehicles can be used in many applications and domains, particularly in environments that humans cannot enter (e.g. deep sea) or prefer not to enter (e.g. war zones). The promise of relatively low cost, highly reliable and effective assets that are not subject to the physical, psychological or training constraints of human pilots has led to much research effort across the world. Due to technological advances and increasing investment, interest in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as a practical, deployable technological component in many civil applications is rapidly increasing and becoming a reality, as are their capabilities and availability. UAV platforms also offer a unique experimental environment for developing, integrating and experimenting with many other technologies such as automated planners, knowledge representation systems, chronicle recognition systems, etc. UAV performs various kinds of missions such as mobile tactical reconnaissance, surveillance, law enforcement, search and rescue, land management, environmental monitoring, disaster management. UAV is a complex and challenging system to develop. It operates autonomously in unknown and dynamically changing environment. This requires different types of subsystems to cooperate. In order to realize all functionalities of the UAV, the software part becomes very complex real-time system expected to execute real-time tasks concurrently. This paper describes proposed software architecture for GCS (Ground Control Station) for lightweight UAV purpose-built for medium-scale reconnaissance and surveillance missions in civil area. The overall system architecture and implementation are described.

MONITORING OF TRAFFIC USING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE IN MALAYSIA LANDSCAPE PERSPECTIVE

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azizul Abdullah ◽  
Elmi Abu Bakar ◽  
Muhammad Zaim Mohamed Pauzi
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Ground Control ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Traffic Flows ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
Traffic Condition ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Ground Control Station ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
On The Road

Collecting information on traffic flows are important for provide high quality road system. At present, fixed camera is widely used for the monitoring system which covers limited area.  Therefore, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) such as quadrotor is developed for monitoring traffic flow since the UAV is responsive mobile sensing system. This development of UAV platform is a starting point for developed a highway traffic and management system which is in future can be enhance by connected the system with graphical user interface (GUI) on ground control station that can defined types of vehicles and analyze level of congestion. At present, the system that developed only transmits a real time video to ground control station without any interpretation by software that detects types of vehicles and analyzes traffic condition. Through the surveillance and monitoring of traffic flows that done at Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, the system provides suitable information for authorities to analyse level of congestion happened on the road and provide alternative solution for users in order to avoid the traffic jam.  

scholarly journals Content Analysis of International Standards for Human Factors in Ship Design and Operation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 448-465
Author(s):  
Farizha Ibrahim ◽  
Mohd Norsyarizad Razali ◽  
Noh Zainal Abidin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Human Error ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Ship Design ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Standards And Guidelines

Human-related factors account for more than 80% of accidents at sea, based on studies. According to Global Claims Review 2017 released by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, an estimated 75-96% of shipping accidents have a high probability of involving human error (AGCS, 2017). Designs that do not meet human factors' needs play a significant role in contributing to human error. Documents in terms of design standards and guidelines, rules, and laws are analyzed. As a result, several documents related to human factors have been identified. These documents are based on whether to implement it, even if some are prescriptive, and others are mandatory, being published at different enforcement levels. In ensuring the consistent implementation of human factors, regulators and authorities need to take stricter measures in all the processes involved in designing and building such ships.

scholarly journals Human Factors Considerations in Satellite Operations Human-Computer Interaction Technologies: A Review of Current Applications and Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
David G. I. Heinrich ◽  
Ian McAndrew ◽  
Jeremy Pretty
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Social Loafing ◽  
Human In The Loop ◽  
Remotely Piloted Aircraft ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Remote Operations ◽  
Human Factors Research

Satellite operations are a subset of remote operations that draw similarities with remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) and uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. Increased research into boredom, complacency, habituation, and vigilance as they relate to satellite operations is required due to a lack of prevalence in the literature. Circadian rhythms, crew resource management, and shift work dynamics may exacerbate complacency-driven automation bias and social loafing errors in satellite operations. This overview of theory and applications aims to specifically focus on satellite operations literature within human factors research to identify areas requiring an expansion of knowledge. The human-in-the-loop commonality enables human factors lessons to be passed to satellite operations from unrelated sectors to mitigate catastrophic human error potentially. As such, this literature review details the need for increased research in satellite operations human factors.

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