Siva Banda Director, Control Science Center of Excellence Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
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Siva BandaDirector, Control Science Center of Excellence
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Behavior of Systems with Humans and
Unmanned Vehicles
MURI KickoffPrinceton University13 September 2007
Systems with Humans and Unmanned Vehicles
Objective:
Develop new methods of capturing, modeling, representation, and understanding of human behavior and performance in military tactical scenarios with semi-autonomous vehicles
Impact:
Only by capturing and understanding the complexity of human dynamics in tactical situations can the full potential of semi-autonomous vehicles be realized
Behavioral Issues Affecting Human-Aided Autonomy
Human Issues as an individual:
workload, fatigue, belief systems, preconceived notions, incomplete information, inability to allow for erroneous data, inattention, boredom, training, not accepting data, arrogance, inability to consider the negative consequences of decisions, etc
Human Issues as a member of an organization:
cultural norms, pressure to conform, information compartmentalization, lines of authority, lines of responsibility, punishment, social acceptance, inability to speak truth to power, etc
Avoid Tragically Bad Decisions
Issues at Human-Machine Team Level
Human- Mental model of machines
Machines- Model of human
Over confidence in questionable information
Issues• bad model (wrong) • coupling (degree & number)• partial information (state & intent)• uncertainty (un-forseen events, improbable events, risk)
Issues at Organizational Level
HQAir Traffic Control COMM
Analysts Weapons
VideoRequests
VideoRequests
GroundOps
• who knows who
• who knows what
• who does what
Men/Machines that are aware of their limitationsGOAL
Closing thoughts
• Lack of unified engineering-fidelity analysis, design, and modeling & simulation tools
• May need team: decision & control theory, cognitive psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, autonomous control, operations research, computer science, and others
• The role of unmanned vehicles (in all shapes and sizes) is expected to increase in air, land, space and water domains.
This MURI is absolutely essential to move autonomous control field to a quantum step forward