Descrizione del progetto
Un innovativo assistente personale fa emergere il meglio dei piloti
Oggi sentiamo utilizzare ovunque il termine «pilota automatico». Spesso questa espressione fa riferimento a una sequenza di azioni eseguita senza riflettere, anziché riferirsi al suo significato ufficiale: il controllo automatico della guida di un’imbarcazione o di un veicolo aerospaziale. Sebbene da questa definizione l’uso del «pilota automatico» possa sembrare semplice ed elementare, sostituire il complesso processo decisionale di un pilota con una macchina non è un compito semplice. Il progetto E-PILOTS, finanziato dall’UE, esplorerà le possibilità di un’assistente informatico cognitivo intelligente per piloti, concentrandosi sui benefici di una relazione simbiotica interdipendente anziché su una sostituzione o separazione dei compiti per migliorare l’affidabilità e le prestazioni.
Obiettivo
New technologies have allowed pilots to assume more responsibilities reducing the number of some mechanic and repetitive tasks through automation. The flight deck transition to digital computer-based flight management system has shown a reduction of the workload across a variety of tasks. However, there are still several
open issues that requires further research and a deeper understanding of pilot cognitive decision making process to guide next steps on aircraft control task sharing between human pilots and machines.
Present project proposal will analyse the benefits of cognitive computing assistant and the challenges in key areas such as the relationship between pilot with the surrounding traffic and the aircraft state evolution considering the pressure of the operational context factors such as task responsibilities, situational awareness, and the performance objectives of the mission among others. The dynamics of these interdependencies will be analysed by means of ML techniques identifying the different thresholds that actives a cognitive tasks which will be the baseline to elaborate new symbiosis dynamic structures to improve human-machine information sharing mechanisms.
Human-in-the-mesh modelling paradigm relying on cognitive computing technologies will drive the research and innovation efforts to identify the potential changes in pilot roles and task responsibilities that will improve aircraft system reliability and performance, the pathway to automation in the flight deck to simplify the crew interaction with the systems and make tacit knowledge explicit to be accessible and usable for automated, intelligent systems.
This proposal consider cockpit operations for “man-computer symbiosis” as a metaphor for designing decision support systems that enhance human cognitive performance. Furthermore, it will be explored the Strong Cognitive Symbiosis approach which analyses true interdependence rather than simply cooperation between human and machines
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