Driver Performance Model: 1. Conceptual Framework

Abstract

A comprehensive model that combines the necessary aspects of vehicle characteristics, manual control theory, and human sensory and cognitive capabilities (and limitations) is needed to efficiently and effectively guide experiments and to predict or assess overall driver performance. Such a model would enable an Army program manager to rank competing workload configurations and scenarios in proposed vehicles and to select the one(s) most promising, thereby saving resources otherwise spent on the current process, that is, multiple hardware iterations of 'design-test-fix'. At the present time, no such comprehensive model exists. This report discusses a conceptual framework designed to encompass the relationships, conditions, and constraints related to direct, indirect, and remote modes of driving and thus provides a guide or 'road map' for the construction and creation of a comprehensive driver performance model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA397331

Entities

People

  • Joseph M. Heimerl

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Control Theory
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Guidance
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Mathematical Models
  • Motion Sickness
  • Navigation
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Virtual Reality

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Robotics and Automation.