UAV-guided navigation for ground robot tele-operation in a military reconnaissance environment

Ergonomics

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 940-950

  Chen, Jessie Y C ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Military; Navigation; Spatial ability; UAV; UGV

Indexed keywords

GROUND ROBOT; GROUND ROBOTICS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTIONS; MILITARY ENVIRONMENT; MILITARY RECONNAISSANCE; MILITARY SYSTEMS; SPATIAL ABILITIES; STREAMING VIDEOS; TARGET SEARCH; TELE-OPERATIONS; TRAINING COMMUNITIES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); MILITARY VEHICLES; NAVIGATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ROBOTICS;

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77954843639     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2010.500404     Document Type: Article

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