A Decision, Monitoring and Control Model of the Human Operator Applied to an RPV Control Problem.

Abstract

This report describes application of a decision-making, monitoring and control model (DEMON) for the human operator to a task involving control of Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs). The DEMON model is an extension of the Optimal Control Model (OCM) of the operator derived by infusion decision theoretic notions into the basic OCM structure. The resulting model is designed to treat situations in which control actions may be infrequent and monitoring and decision-making are the operator's main tasks. The analysis of this problem illustrates some of the major considerations in applying DEMON to complex, supervisory control problems. It shows that with fairly straightforward assumptions about the operator's task, DEMON will give reasonable predictions of performance. However, the model results are not compared with actual data so DEMON is presently unvalidated. The development of DEMON was part of a three year research program for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research aimed at investigating human performance models. The report also provides a brief summary of the overall effort.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA069880

Entities

People

  • Carl Feehrer
  • Ramal Muralidharan
  • Sheldon Baron

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Biological Sciences
  • Computer Programs
  • Equations Of State
  • Flight Paths
  • Ground Speed
  • Information Processing
  • Lepidoptera
  • Light Pens
  • Motor Skills
  • Navigation
  • Probability
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Simulations
  • Vehicles
  • Workload

Readers

  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Theoretical Analysis.