Principal Investigator Howard Shrobe
Co-investigator Kimberle Koile
A Plan-Based Command Post for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs)Fleets of UAVs can carry out missions in a number of fields such as space exploration and search-and-rescue. However, human supervision is still required to monitor the status of the fleet to ensure that the mission is being carried out as planned. To make it easier for human supervisors to monitor the status of these missions, we used Planlet to create a Command Post application that presents an aggregated and abstracted view of the status information reported by the UAVs. The UI presented by the Command Post is based upon the idea that the mission the UAVs carry out can be thought of as a plan. Using this model, the Command Post presents mission status at the level of goals and plans and it directs operator attention to the UAVs that require his attention.