Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems

Abstract

For over a decade the human factors of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS, but also known as Unmanned Aerial Systems-UAS or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-UAV) has been the continued focus of a community of scientists and engineers. Their efforts have been highlighted in various workshops, conferences and books and range from the design of effective ground control stations to crew coordination, spatial disorientation, supervisory control of multiple vehicles, soda straw views of camera feed, and training and selection. Much progress has been made. But new problems are surfacing of a different, more complex nature. Current pressing issues such as the integration of UAS in the national airspace, training and certification of civilian pilots, or exploitation of sensor data from these platforms and concomitant privacy concerns fall within the scope of the discipline of Human Systems Integration (HSI). This panel will highlight several human systems integrations issues surrounding RPAS and will engage the audience in discussion of those issues.

UAV systems for multipurpose heterogeneous networks: a review of design, development and performance

“…The success is contingent upon the degree to which human capabilities and limitations match the affordances and constraints. 79,82 Conclusions a) Heterogeneous networks must work with ground sensors, manned and unmanned aircraft, and satellites. The fact that they are mobile introduces significant challenges and advantages for future applications, being the preliminary sizing shown a platform to begin to materialize a UAV for multi-agent systems.…”