Development and Evaluation of an Automated Path Planning Aid

Watts, Robert; Christmann, Hans Claus; Johnson, Eric N.; Feigh, Karen M.; Tsiotras, Panagiotis

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Development and Evaluation of an Automated Path Planning Aid

dc.contributor.author	Watts, Robert
dc.contributor.author	Christmann, Hans Claus
dc.contributor.author	Johnson, Eric N.
dc.contributor.author	Feigh, Karen M.
dc.contributor.author	Tsiotras, Panagiotis
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Aerospace Engineering	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Facility	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-14T16:15:21Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-14T16:15:21Z
dc.date.issued	2012-11
dc.description.abstract	Handling en route emergencies in modern transport aircraft through adequate teamwork between the pilot, the crew and the aircraft’s automation systems is an ongoing and active field of research. An automated path planning aid tool can assist pilots with the tasks of selecting a convenient landing site and developing a safe path to land at this site in the event of an onboard emergency. This paper highlights the pilot evaluation results of a human factors study as part of such a proposed automated planning aid. Focusing on the interactions between the pilot and the automated planning aid, the presented results suggest that a particular implementation of the pilot aid interface, which uses a simple dial to sort the most promising landing sites, was effective. This selectable sorting capability, motivated by the anticipated cognitive mode of the pilot crew, improved the quality of the selected site for the majority of the cases tested. Although the presented approach increased the average time required for the selection of an alternate landing site, it decreased the time to complete the task in the case of emergencies unfamiliar to the pilot crew.	en_US
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dc.identifier.citation	Robert Watts, Hans Claus Christmann, Eric N. Johnson, Karen Feigh, and Panagiotis Tsiotras. "Development and Evaluation of an Automated Path Planning Aid", Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 49, No. 6 (2012), pp. 1774-1785. doi: 10.2514/1.C031513	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.2514/1.C031513	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1533-3868
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45736
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology.	en_US
dc.publisher	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)	en_US
dc.subject	In-flight emergency	en_US
dc.subject	Cockpit aid	en_US
dc.subject	Aerospace human factors	en_US
dc.subject	Decision aid	en_US
dc.subject	Landing aids (Aeronautics)	en_US
dc.subject	Trajectory optimization	en_US
dc.subject	Automatic Planning Aid (APA)	en_US
dc.title	Development and Evaluation of an Automated Path Planning Aid	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Post-print
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local.contributor.author	Feigh, Karen M.
local.contributor.author	Tsiotras, Panagiotis
local.contributor.author	Johnson, Eric N.
local.contributor.corporatename	Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename	College of Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Facility
local.contributor.corporatename	Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)
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