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Evaluation of Early Ground Control Station Configurations for Interacting with a UAS Traffic Management (UTM) SystemThe purpose of this paper is to report on a human factors evaluation of ground control station design concepts for interacting with an unmanned traffic management system. The data collected for this paper comes from recent field tests for NASA's Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) project, and covers the following topics; workload, situation awareness, as well as flight crew communication, coordination, and procedures. The goal of this evaluation was to determine if the various software implementations for interacting with the UTM system can be described and classified into design concepts to provide guidance for the development of future UTM interfaces. We begin with a brief description of NASA's UTM project, followed by a description of the test range configuration related to a second development phase. We identified (post hoc) two classes in which the ground control stations could be grouped. This grouping was based on level of display integration. The analysis was exploratory and informal. It was conducted to compare ground stations across those two classes and against the aforementioned topics. Herein, we discuss the results.
Document ID
20170002613
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Dao, Arik-Quang V.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Martin, Lynne
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Mohlenbrink, Christoph
(San Jose State Univ. San Jose, CA, United States)
Bienert, Nancy
(San Jose State Univ. San Jose, CA, United States)
Wolte, Cynthia
(San Jose State Univ. San Jose, CA, United States)
Gomez, Ashley
(San Jose State Univ. San Jose, CA, United States)
Claudatos, Lauren
(San Jose State Univ. San Jose, CA, United States)
Mercer, Joey
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Date Acquired
March 29, 2017
Publication Date
July 17, 2017
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Report/Patent Number
ARC-E-DAA-TN40493
Report Number: ARC-E-DAA-TN40493
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Conference Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2017)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: July 17, 2017
End Date: July 21, 2017
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNX12AB08A
WBS: WBS 154692.02.70.01.01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
unmanned traffic management
human factors
human-systems integration
systems engineering
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