AI Bibliography

Pilots have benefited from ever-increasing and evolving au- tomation techniques for many decades. This automation has allowed pilots to handle increasingly complex aircraft with greater safety, precision, and reduced workload. Unfortu- nately, it can also lead to misunderstandings and loss of situ- ational awareness. In the face of malfunctions or unexpected events, pilots sometimes have an unclear picture of the sit- uation and what to do next, or must find and follow writ- ten procedures that do not take into account all the details of the particular situation. Pilots may also incorrectly as- sume the mode or state of an automated system and fail to perform certain necessary actions that they assumed an auto- mated system would handle. To help alleviate these issues, we introduce the Cockpit Hierarchical Activity Planning and Execution (CHAP-E) system. CHAP-E provides pilots with guidance toward executing procedures based on the aircraft and automation system’s state and assists pilots through both nominal and off-nominal flight situations.