Human Interaction with Levels of Automation and Decision-Aid Fidelity in the Supervisory Control of Multiple Simulated Unmanned Air Vehicles

An evaluation of the effects of automation level and decision-aid fidelity on the number of simulated remotely operated vehicles that could be successfully controlled by a single operator during a target acquisition task indicates that an automation level incorporating management-by-consent had some clear performance advantages over the more autonomous and less autonomous levels of automation.