Human Factors and Ergonomics Society/Southern Ohio Chapter Meeting

Monday, October 5, 2015, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Campus: 
Dayton
Fawcett Hall 339A
Audience: 
Current Students
Faculty
Staff
Alumni
The public

Invited Speaker!!! (Lunch-time Brown Bag)
Mr. Brent Kiss
Human Factors Assessment of Ground Control Station (GCS) Interfaces for small Unmanned Aerial Systems

Since the explosion of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) market in the past five years, the technology available Commercially-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) has become not only easily attainable, but also extremely advanced.  An amateur hobbyist with a little bit of energy, time, passion (and of course money), can develop a completely autonomous system with the ability to communicate via a live telemetry antennae to its corresponding Ground Control Station (GCS).  How is all of this information conveyed to the operator though?  . . . And how is the operator interfacing with the GCS?  . . . Do the flight control systems have the ability to record data from their proprietary UAV onboard payload sensors?  . . . And if they do, then how is this information/data conveyed to the user?  All of these questions raise many human factors concerns, and will be discussed during the presentation.

Mr. Brent Kiss is a Human Factors Engineer at WSRI, and has supported multiple UAV related projects, both in the commercial domain, as well as AFRL (RHCI).  He has personally tested more than 65 pilots during his research experience at WSU under the supervision of Dr. Jennie Gallimore.  Research efforts focused on ways to improve interfaces supporting data-link communication for commercial pilots utilizing graphics on a traditional navigation display in conjunction with concatenated clearances.  Mr. Kiss has also designed and constructed a custom VTOL to accommodate multiple miniaturized sensors for various applications.

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