The Effects of Input Power Spectra on Human Operator Compensatory Tracking.

Abstract

An investigation is made into the effect on mean-squared error, as a performance measure in a single-axis compensatory tracking task, due to changes in the shape of the input power spectral density. Quasi-linear describing function theory is used to predict normalized mean-squared error with the pilot-vehicle dynamics represented by the crossover model. A digital computer program is used to evaluate the resultant mean-squared integrals and to plot normalized mean-squared error as a function of input and crossover model parameters. The effect on human operator performance due to an added low-amplitude high frequency extension to a near-rectangular input spectrum is studied. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0714130

Entities

People

  • John C. Heifferon

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Digital Computers
  • Dynamics
  • Frequency
  • Integrals
  • Power Spectra
  • Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.