The Effect of Tactical Situation Display on Attack Helicopter Pilot’s Workload

Eunghyun Lee, Yongjin Kwon

2014

Abstract

The attack helicopter performs numerous tasks, such as anti-armor operation, close air support, search and destroy, and reconnaissance. As 71% of aviation accidents are human-caused, high workload and stress level of pilots greatly affect their performance level. Additionally, pilots that are responsible for attack helicopters have to work under enemy threats, which increase their stress levels. In order to decrease their workload, we installed a TSD (Tactical Situation Display) in our helicopter simulator. Then, we analysed the results to find out if the TSD affects the work efficiency and mental pressure of the pilots. We analysed the task performance time and the pilot workload using the NASA-TLX with the paired sample method. The test indicates that the additional information provided by the TSD can help reduce the pilot workload.

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in Harvard Style

Lee E. and Kwon Y. (2014). The Effect of Tactical Situation Display on Attack Helicopter Pilot’s Workload . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-040-6, pages 680-684. DOI: 10.5220/0005016606800684


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco14,
author={Eunghyun Lee and Yongjin Kwon},
title={The Effect of Tactical Situation Display on Attack Helicopter Pilot’s Workload},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2014},
pages={680-684},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005016606800684},
isbn={978-989-758-040-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - The Effect of Tactical Situation Display on Attack Helicopter Pilot’s Workload
SN - 978-989-758-040-6
AU - Lee E.
AU - Kwon Y.
PY - 2014
SP - 680
EP - 684
DO - 10.5220/0005016606800684