Human-System Interaction Analysis for Military Pilot Activity and Mental Workload Determination

Dynamic Workload Management for Multi-RPAS Pilots

“…These measurements will reflect the Ground Control Station (GCS) usability, aircraft capabilities, mission and procedures, the LOA, and the pilot performance profile. Several studies have been conducted on the workload modelling of pilots, even for the specific topic of multiple UAVs [11]. These rely on measurements and modelling tools with different levels of sophistication, and try to provide clues for the system designers in the initial steps of system development or in the process of optimising any detected source of high workload or task parallelisation incompatibility.…”

“…not allowing some kinds of overlap even when the total workload was under the threshold. The result would be a kind of multi-tasking conflict matrix, similar to the one in [11] at a GCS level to define the incompatibility of resource overlapping among parallel tasks.…”

“…The suggested representation and management of the workload holds the qualities of sensitivity (each task or task type has its own description), being continuous, predictive, context-rich and non-intrusive. The qualities of continuous, predictive and context-rich can also be found at a cockpit levelin an adaptive associate system when it comes to monitoring the state of the pilot, predicting his/her future state, and smoothly reacting to adjust the pilot's level of workload by providing automated support or re-allocating tasks [11], [24], [25].…”

NtoM: a Concept of Operations for Pilots of Multiple Remotely Piloted Aircraft

“…These suggestions could be automatically applied or subject to confirmation by a supervisor. A similar dynamic crew allocation and supervisor role can be found in [4] when the dispatcher needs to hand off any flight to offer dedicated support as a first officer and the supervisor is in charge of that reassignment; in NtoM, the best candidates would be automatically calculated and the supervisor, if present, just needs to select and apply a suggestion. A different and interesting approach, which is worth mentioning, appears in [35].…”

“…Some of these improvements are based on a careful balance of cognitive resources and mental workload. Others try to enhance the human scope by teaming pilot and adaptive automation [4]. The search for productivity has also sometimes been based on task scheduling [5], [6].…”