Evaluation of Novel Method of Hand Gesture Input to Define Automatic Scanning Path for UAV SAR Missions
This study evaluated a novel method of defining the automatic flight path of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for search and rescue missions in a VR environment. The developed VR content reserves miniature digital twins of a building in the fire and a steep mountain terrain site. The users drow the U...
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| Published in | 한국항행학회논문지, 27(4) pp. 473 - 480 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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한국항행학회
01.08.2023
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| Online Access | Get full text |
| ISSN | 1226-9026 |
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| Summary: | This study evaluated a novel method of defining the automatic flight path of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for search and rescue missions in a VR environment. The developed VR content reserves miniature digital twins of a building in the fire and a steep mountain terrain site. The users drow the UAV’s scanning path using hand gestures on the surface of digital twins, and then the UAV make an automatic flight along the defined path. According to human-in-the-loop simulation tests comparing the novel method with a conventional manual flight task with 19 participants, the novel method did not improve the mission performance but participants felt a lower mental workload. The designer may need to consider the automation support on the vulnerable points of the SAR mission environment while maintaining experts’ mapping capability. KCI Citation Count: 0 |
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| ISSN: | 1226-9026 |