A study on operational ability comparing drone-centric and user-centric control in external piloting
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A study on operational ability comparing drone-centric and user-centric control in external piloting Min-soo Suh 1 & Choonsung Nam 2 Received: 17 January 2019 / Revised: 27 March 2020 / Accepted: 27 May 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract
Drone manipulation can be divided into external piloting and internal piloting. Internal piloting is a technique where a user monitors the status of a drone and controls it. On the other hand, external piloting is a technique in which the user controls a drone from the point of view of the user. In this case, external piloting can cause the operator to make a mistake regarding the operation of the drone due to the difference in viewpoint between the user and the drone when operating the drone. Therefore, this paper proposes a method to solve this difficulty of drone operation by mismatching the viewpoint between the drones and the users. We compare the user-centric method of con-trolling the drones considering the user’s point of view and the drone-centric method of controlling the drones considering the drone’s point of view. Through this experiment, we demonstrate the excellence of a user-centric point of view. Additional study includes whether the difficulty of drone manipulation can be overcome by learning. Keywords Drone piloting . User-centric . Drone-centric . External piloting . Operational ability . Learning effect
1 Introduction Drone or UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. UAVs are a component of a UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System). A UAS includes a UAV and a ground-based controller, along with a communication system between the two [16]. Drones
* Choonsung Nam [email protected] Min-soo Suh [email protected]
1
Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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Department of Software Convergence Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea
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were originally developed for military use and have steadily expanded their market with technology [1, 14]. In the past, drones were not widely used because they were expensive and technically difficult to access. Recently, it has become possible to produce affordable drones through open source, making them widely available to consumers. A drone company which has recently risen to prominence is DJI. A typical model of DJI is Phantom with sales of about 500 million dollars. DJI is the hottest emerging company with more than 10 billion in corporate value [4]. The growth of the drone market is also affecting other business related to drones such as highperformance cameras, sensors, small lighters, and high-performance batteries [10]. In the consumer market, drones are widely used for analyzing the collected image to identify the structure, and inspecting pipelines such as oil and gas through camera sensor of the drone [21], navigation to find indoor 3D location information by integrating an active depth sensor and an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) in an indoor environment [20], SLAM
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