Title:
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
dc.type Text
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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