How to be a UAV pilot with just 3 minutes of training and a smartphone
Prof. Missy Cummings, Director of the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory (halab.mit.edu) will present a broad overview of projects in her lab ranging from robotic forklift supervisory control interface design to tabletop designs for complex system resource allocation and scheduling. She will highlight recent work in the design and testing of a smartphone interface that allows a casual user to almost immediately be able to pilot a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). She will discuss future applications of such devices as well as commercialization possibilities.
Speaker Details
Mary (Missy) Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the Navy’s first female fighter pilots. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her previous teaching experience includes instructing for the U.S. Navy at Pennsylvania State University and as an assistant professor for the Virginia Tech Engineering Fundamentals Division. Her research interests include human interaction with autonomous systems, modeling human interaction with complex systems, decision support design for time-pressured, uncertain systems, and the ethical and social impact of technology.
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- Mary Cummings
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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