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In this article, we investigate the workshare and task allocation of humans and cognitive agents onboard unmanned vehicles (UV) in military scenarios with temporarily unavailable datalink. Human control over UV depends on a reliable datalink connection. Useful operation under temporary datalink interruption requires automatic capabilities of the UV to react to developing situations and pursue the mission objective, without human input. We aim to increase controllability during these times by the pre-definition of behaviors (what actions to take if certain conditions are met). The introduction of suchlike working agreements between human and UV-onboard agent raises the discussion of task allocation and workshare between human and UV. Based on this discussion, we present the implementation of the proposed solution in our helicopter simulator with cockpit-based UV control. Although this article focusses on military application, the findings promise relevance to other fields like the integration of UV into civilian airspace.
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Deliberation refers to the resource-bounded generation of plans of action, based on a means-end reasoning process. While the agent is committed to the generated plan, it also frequently reevaluates a generated plan [17].
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Meyer, C., Schulte, A. (2021). Conditional Behavior: Human Delegation Mode for Unmanned Vehicles Under Selective Datalink Availability. In: Zallio, M., Raymundo Ibañez, C., Hernandez, J.H. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Robots, Unmanned Systems and Cybersecurity. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79997-7_5
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