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In recent years, a prototype was developed at the Institute of Flight Systems which enables the deployment of manned unmanned teaming (MUM-T) in a simulated military air mission. This article describes the design of this prototype with the required automation and presents the results of the human-in-the-loop experiment conducted with eight professional German Air Force pilots. For the experiment six realistic mission scenarios in three levels of difficulty were designed. We describe the success of the human integration in a MUM-T system by quantifying the human-in-the-loop experiments with interdependent indicators. Workload is – besides classic mission specific operational parameters – the main indicator of the efficiency of a human-machine system. The human’s ability to collaborate with automation determine the efficiency of the overall system. The experimental data supports to derive operational requirements for the design of a MUM-T system.
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Lindner, S., Schulte, A. (2020). Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation of a Manned-Unmanned System Approach to Derive Operational Requirements for Military Air Missions. In: Harris, D., Li, WC. (eds) Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. Cognition and Design. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12187. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49183-3_27
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