Desktop Simulator Demonstration of a Joint Human/Automated Upset Recovery System

Abstract

reduce loss of life. This paper presents the development and initial testing of a joint human/automated (H/A) recovery system intended to assist the crew with recovery from upset conditions. The goal of the system is to keep pilots in the loop, leveraging their expertise while simultaneously conveying information about recovery procedures in an intuitive and unobtrusive manner. This research builds on recent work by the authors targeted at autonomous upset recovery for unmanned aerial vehicles. The authors have developed a number of crew-specic extensions to this automated system at both the architecture and interface levels. The resulting system optimizes recovery strategies oine, stores the recovery procedures in a compact manner that can easily be queried in real-time online, and communicates the procedure to the pilot through visual and haptic cues. The system was evaluated in a small-scale pilot-in-the-loop study. Three pilots with dierent backgrounds as well as dierent levels of experience were recruited to take part in the pilot-in-the-loop experiments. Metrics were dened to evaluate performance both in terms of quantitative recovery metrics (e.g. how fast did the vehicle recover nominal ight?)