Guide for the Design of Control Sticks in Vibration Environments

Abstract

A set of manual control experiments was conducted to determine the effects of control-stick parameters on tracking performance in a vibration environment. Preliminary experimental variables were stick design parameters, stick location, and presence or absence of vibration. Stick parameters had little effect on rms tracking error under vibration conditions for the particular aircraft dynamics that were used in this study. Considerable effect on control activity was observed, however, which suggests that stick design parameters will significantly influence overall performance in systems that respond at vibration frequencies. Stick location had no significant effect on either tracking or biodynamic performance measures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA008533

Entities

People

  • Philip D. Houck
  • William H. Levison

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Computational Science
  • Control Sticks
  • Control Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Frequency Domain
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Regression Analysis
  • Relative Motion
  • Reliability
  • Statistical Algorithms

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Robotics and Automation.