Predicting controller capacity in supervisory control of multiple UAVs

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 451-460

  Cummings, Mary L ^a   Mitchell, Paul J ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b General Electric Energy in Power Generation Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Fan out (FO); Multiple unmanned vehicles; Operator capacity; Supervisory control

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; QUEUEING THEORY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

COGNITIVE REORIENTATION; HUMAN-VEHICLE INTERACTION;

REMOTE CONTROL;

EID: 41149139737     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.914757     Document Type: Article

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