Modeling workload impact in multiple unmanned vehicle supervisory control

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

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1180-1190

  Donmez, Birsen ^a   Nehme, Carl ^b   Cummings, Mary L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention allocation; operator utilization (UT); queuing theory; simulation; unmanned vehicles (UVs)

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ATTENTION ALLOCATION; ATTENTION SWITCHING; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION MODEL; MENTAL WORKLOAD; MULTIPLE TASKS; OPERATOR UTILIZATION (UT); OPERATOR WORKLOAD; QUANTITATIVE RELATIONS; QUEUING THEORY; SIMULATION; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SUPERVISORY CONTROL; TEAM STRUCTURES; WAIT TIME;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH; QUEUEING THEORY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77958084074     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2046731     Document Type: Article

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