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Experimental Application of Robot Operability Simulator (ROSim) to the Operability Assessment of Military Robots

로봇 운용성 시뮬레이터(ROSim)의 군사로봇 운용성 평가에 실험적 적용 연구

  • Choi, Sangyeong (The Specialized Research Center for Future Ground System Analysis, MyongJi University) ;
  • Park, Woosung (The Specialized Research Center for Future Ground System Analysis, MyongJi University)
  • Received : 2017.12.26
  • Accepted : 2018.05.15
  • Published : 2018.08.31
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Abstract

Military robots are expected to play an important role in the future battlefield, and will be actively engaged in dangerous, repetitive and difficult tasks. During the robots perform the tasks a human operator controls the robots in a supervisory way. The operator recognizes battlefield situations from remote robots through an interface of the operator control center, and controls them. In the meantime, operator workload, controller interface, robot automation level, and task complexity affect robot operability. In order to assess the robot operability, we have developed ROSim (Robot Operational Simulator) incorporating these operational factors. In this paper, we introduce the results of applying ROSim experimentally to the assessment of reconnaissance robot operability in a battle field. This experimental assessment shows three resulting measurements: operational control workload, operational control capability, mission success rate, and discuss its applicability to the defense robot research and development. It is expected that ROSim can contribute to the design of an operator control center and the design analysis of a human-robot team in the defense robot research and development.

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