HCI Based Heterogeneous Controller Remote Control Technology for Unmanned Platform Operation

The recent war patterns, such as the Russia-Ukraine war, show that it is becoming important to integrate and operate various unmanned platforms for complex tactical operations. Therefore, cooperative operability between various platforms and an integrated control system using various controllers are becoming increasingly essential elements in the modern battlefield. In such an integrated control system, the operator's operational convenience must be considered to improve the task performance capability. Based on HCI technology, the way to promote high trust of operators is to increase the familiarity of the robot. Also, unmanned weapon systems generally develop GCS(Ground Control Station) and portable controller together for emergency response, but the functionality of portable controller is limited. In this paper, we propose a SW-common heterogeneous controller through a familiar multiple control input devices based on HCI. This paper measured the performance and reliability of remote control technology in simulated environment using TiA(Trust in Automation), an autonomous/semi-autonomous feeling performance indicator for heterogeneous multiple controllers, and NASA-TLX(NASA-Task Load Index), a workload evaluation tool. We propose a highly reliable multi Unmanned-platform remote control technology proven through the corresponding indicators.