CAREER: Human interaction with large numbers of unmanned vehicles

未来的无人驾驶车辆（UV）系统将用于国土安全任务，包括化学，生物，核，辐射和爆炸（CBRNE）事件响应。设想了结合大量地面和空中UV的UV系统[67]（大型混合型UV系统）。该项目将开发可视化技术，提供一个可扩展的界面，纳入综合和易于理解的信息，从而可以监督大型混合型紫外线系统。该项目包括三个人机交互（HRI）挑战领域：数据抽象框架的开发;可扩展界面可视化技术的开发;以及可视化过渡技术的开发。 在前四年，PI将开发和评估数据抽象，可视化和转换技术。第五年的重点是CBRNE实地评价。PI的复杂的人机交互过程中，一个新的模块和一个新的介绍机器人课程将被开发。每年夏天，一名本科生和一名高中教师将加入研究小组。该项目的智力优势包括：制定数据抽象框架，以提供可扩展的集成可视化;创建和评估可视化和可视化过渡技术;通过模拟和真实的UV进行定量和定性可用性评估，验证所有假设。为大型混合型紫外线系统开发可视化技术，使应急响应人员能够快速评估情况，同时减少污染物暴露。HRI技术的发展将影响紫外线系统的发展，以提高人员的能力，减少暴露于危险情况，并覆盖困难的地形。可视化的发展可能会影响复杂系统领域的界面设计，如空中交通管制和核过程监控。高中教师参加暑期研究项目，鼓励他们在课程中加入研究实例，并可能导致学生对工程的兴趣增加。

Future unmanned vehicle (UV) systems will be deployed for homeland security missions including Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Radiological, and Explosive (CBRNE) event response. UV systems that incorporate large numbers of ground and aerial UVs [67] (large, mixed-type UV systems) are envisioned. This project will develop visualization techniques that provide a scalable interface incorporating integrated and easily understood information, thus permitting supervision of large, mixed-type UV systems. This project includes three Human-Robotic Interaction (HRI) challenge areas: the development of a data abstraction framework; the development of scalable interface visualization techniques; and the development of visualization transition techniques. During the first four years, the PI will develop and evaluate data abstractions, visualization, and transition techniques. The fifth year focuses on CBRNE field evaluations. A new module for the PI's Complex Human-Machine Interaction course and a new Introduction to Robotics course will be developed. Each summer an undergraduate student and a high school teacher will join the research team. The intellectual merits of this project include: formulation of a data abstraction framework for providing scalable, integrated visualizations; creation and evaluation of visualization and visualization transition techniques; and validation of all hypotheses via quantitative and qualitative usability evaluations with simulated and real UVs.Broader impacts: The development of visualization techniques for large, mixed-type UV systems that allow emergency responders to quickly assess a situation while reducing exposure to contaminants. The development of HRI techniques that will impact UV system development for homeland security that increase personnel capabilities, reduce exposure to dangerous situations, and cover difficult terrain. The development of visualizations may influence interface design for complex system domains such as air traffic control and nuclear process monitoring. The inclusion of high school teachers in summer research projects encourages inclusion of research examples in their courses and may result in increasing student interest in engineering.