A Design Methodology for Controlling , Monitoring , and Allocating Unmanned Vehicles

Supervisory control of unmanned systems presents challenges to users at several levels in the military hierarchy. The UV operator has to control and supervise multiple assets, commanders need to quickly extract information, and allocation of vehicles to different clients involved in the mission is an additional demand. Such tasks may have an impact on task load, task switching, selective attention, and trust in the system. At each level therefore, the interface is a crucial tool for effectively controlling, monitoring, and allocating these assets. We present a methodology for designing such a supervisory control interface. We illustrate this methodology with 3 use cases.