Print Email Facebook Twitter Ecological Interface for Collaboration of Multiple UAVs in Remote Areas Title Ecological Interface for Collaboration of Multiple UAVs in Remote Areas Author van Lochem, S. Borst, C. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) de Croon, G.C.H.E. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) van Paassen, M.M. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Mulder, Max (TU Delft Control & Operations) Department Control & Operations Date 2016 Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be used to access remote areas, e.g., for surveillance missions. Collaboration between them can help overcome communication constraints by building airborne relay networks that allow beyond line of sight communication. This research investigates whether a single human operator can supervise multiple UAVs in a collaborative surveillance task under communication constraints. We designed an ecological interface to support operators in their task and increase system flexibility. A preliminary humanin-the-loop study was done to investigate operator task performance and evaluate interface components. It was shown that operators are able to successfully operate surveillance missions under communication- and battery constraints. Participants did, however, not succeed to do this without separation conflicts and communication losses, which indicates that the interface lacks elements representing endurance and separation assurance. To an extent, the interface design turned out to be scalable, with a few remaining visualizations that cause clutter for large numbers of UAVs. More advanced ways of displaying information on request and grouping of select information is warranted to further improve the interface. Subject human-machine interfacesupervisory controlecological interface design To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d7ffc4a0-00a1-46ea-baa3-8d9d4890633f DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.620 ISSN 2405-8963 Source IFAC-PapersOnLine, 49 (19), 450-455 Event 13th IFAC Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems, 2016-08-30 → 2016-09-02, Kyoto, Japan Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 S. van Lochem, C. Borst, G.C.H.E. de Croon, M.M. van Paassen, Max Mulder Files PDF IFAC2016_Lochem.pdf 304.51 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d7ffc4a0-00a1-46ea-baa3-8d9d4890633f/datastream/OBJ/view