These technologies will increase the ability for crew members to oversee the operations of teams of robots during lunar and Martian missions and, in the nearer term, during analog experiments on Earth. Other NASA applications include the development of intelligent user interfaces for the management of mission operations including problem resolution in the spacecraft, base and science data gathering operations, payload operations, and preventive maintenance and housekeeping activities.
The resulting technologies will help Department of Defense personnel evaluate the progress of plan executions by autonomous vehicles and by military forces, compare actual and planned events, and identify possible problem causes and downstream effects. With the DoD-wide development of autonomous unmanned vehicles for land, air or sea operations, future adaptive intelligent interfaces will be needed to support new operator requirements as workloads change from many operators controlling one UV to one operator controlling many UVs (ideally a 1:4 ratio).
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