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Autonomous horizons.
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Zacharias, Greg, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Air Force--Automation.
- United States.
- United States. Air Force.
- Aeronautics, Military--Research--United States.
- Aeronautics, Military.
- Artificial intelligence--Military applications--United States.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Intelligent control systems.
- Autonomic computing--United States.
- Autonomic computing.
- Aeronautics, Military--Research.
- Armed Forces--Automation.
- Artificial intelligence--Military applications.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (volumes) : color illustrations
- Other Title:
- Volume 1 subtitle: System autonomy in the Air Force--a path to the future
- Volume 2 subtitle: Way forward
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Air Force, Office of the Chief Scientist, 2015.
- Maxwell AFB, Alabama : Air University Press ; Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- This report depicts a path to the future for system autonomy in the Air Force. It describes an evolutionary progression that obtains the best benefits of autonomous software working synergistically with the innovation of empowered airmen. This vision is both obtainable and sustainable, it leaves the authority and responsibility for warfare in the hands of airmen while creating tools that enhance their situation awareness and decision-making, speed effective actions, and bring needed extensions to their capabilities. Rather than attempting to design the airman out of the equation, the Air Force embraces the agility, intelligence and innovation that airmen provide, along with the advanced capabilities of autonomy, to create effective teams in which activities can be accomplished smoothly, simply and seamlessly. In this first volume, a summary of the challenges of automation and autonomy for airman interaction are presented, based on some four decades of experience and research on this issue. These include (1) difficulties in creating autonomy software that is robust enough to function without human intervention and oversight, (2) the lowering of human situation awareness that occurs when using automation leading to out-of the-loop performance decrements, (3) increases in cognitive workload required to interact with the greater complexity associated with automation, (4) increased time to make decisions when decision aids are provided, often without the desired increase in decision accuracy, and (5) challenges with developing a level of trust that is appropriately calibrated to the reliability and functionality of the system in various circumstances. Given that it is unlikely that autonomy in the foreseeable future will work perfectly for all functions and operations, and that airman interaction with autonomy will continue to be needed at some level, each of these factors works to create the need for a new approach to the design of autonomous systems that will allow them to serve as an effective teammate with the airmen who depend on them to do their jobs.
- Contents:
- volume 1. Human-autonomy teaming
- volume 2. [without special title] / Dr. Greg L. Zacharias.
- Notes:
- "AF/ST TR 15-01"--Cover, volume 1.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from PDF cover (volume 1)(viewed June 26, 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Zacharias, Greg. Autonomous horizons.
- OCLC:
- 911995836
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