Mixed-Initiative Planning for Manned-Unmanned Teaming Missions

The proposed presentation describes an adaptive mixed-initiative agent which assists during mission (re-) planning to enable efficient multi-vehicle mission management. Our application comprises future military manned-unmanned teaming missions. The mixed-initiative agent is capable to plan and schedule tasks of manned and unmanned aircrafts. But instead of replacing the human’s role as mission manager, the agent acts as an additional team member and supports the human with task proposals and flaw corrections. Therefore, the agent supports on a level, which was formerly exclusively owned by human operators. The type and extend of support is adapted to the particular situation automatically. By reducing the pilot’s work share in the planning process, pilot mental workload can be reduced significantly. However, the probability for lacks in plan awareness increases