Testing Research on the Professional Ability of Multi-axial UAV Operators Based on Eye-movement Technology

Nowadays large numbers of multiaxial UAVs are applied in the civilian field. The security of operating UAV has been upped to new levels. It has now become urgent to solve the problems of training high-quality UAV operators and effectively evaluating their training results. The article attempts to introduce the eye-movement technology, which has been widely used in the aviation field, to UAV and then onto design experiments. The three measured parameters of eye-movement—the testees' eye-movement frequency, average fixation duration and the first time to fixate on the area of interest—are used as the basis for quantitative evaluation and research so as to get the data from hot spots and eye-movement rates. Through analyzing the regular patterns of the testees' eye-movements, the article preliminarily obtains the results of skill evaluation supported by quantized data by using the method of combining the eye-movement analysis technics and theories of human-factor engineering and the essential points of operating UAV.