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The objective of this article is to define a cockpit interface for the guidance of several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) missions. Besides his flying tasks, the pilot is responsible for the management of the UAVs in such scenarios. Based on a work system analysis the system participants and two modes of automation, delegation and assistance, were derived. For the delegation we define which types of tasks exist, how they can be selected, parameterized and delegated on a time line. Subsequently, we present the cooperation of the system in case of missing tasks, conflicts and suboptimal plans, as well as their visualization on the time line. The presented concepts are fully implemented on the IFS Jet Simulator and will be validated experimentally with pilots of the German Air Force at the end of the year.
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Heilemann, F., Schulte, A. (2020). Time Line Based Tasking Concept for MUM-T Mission Planning with Multiple Delegation Levels. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Vergnano, A., Leali, F., Taiar, R. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2020. IHSI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39512-4_154
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