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Considering the ever-increasing use of drones in a plentitude of application areas, the risk is that also an ever-increasing number of drone incidents would be observed. Research has shown that a large majority of all incidents with drones is due not to technological, but to human error. An advanced risk-reduction methodology, focusing on the human element, is thus required in order to allow for the safe use of drones. In this paper, we therefore introduce a novel concept to provide a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the performance of the drone operator. The proposed methodology is based on one hand upon the development of standardized test methodologies and on the other hand on human performance modeling of the drone operators in a highly realistic simulation environment.
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Doroftei, D., De Cubber, G., De Smet, H. (2021). Reducing Drone Incidents by Incorporating Human Factors in the Drone and Drone Pilot Accreditation Process. In: Zallio, M. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Robots, Drones and Unmanned Systems. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1210. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51758-8_10
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