Human Pilot Dynamics in Compensatory Systems: Theory, Models, and Experiments with Controlled Element and Forcing Function Variations
Report Number: AFFDL TR 65-15
Author(s): McRuer, Duane, Graham, Dunstan, Krendel, Ezra, Reisener, William, Jr.
Corporate Author(s): Systems Technology, Inc.; The Franklin Institute
Laboratory: Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory
Date of Publication: 1965-07
Pages: 216
Contract: AF 33(616)-7501
DoD Project: 8219
DoD Task: 821905
Identifier: AD0470337
Abstract:
The description of human pilot dynamic characteristics in mathematical terms compatible with flight control engineering practice is an essential prerequisite to the analytical treatment of manual vehicular control systems. The enormously adaptive nature of the human pilot makes such a description exceedingly difficult to obtain, although a quasi-linear model with parameters which vary with the system task variables had been successfully applied to many flight situations. The primary purposes of the experimental series reported are the validation of the existing quasi-linear pilot model, and the extension of this model in accuracy and detail.
Provenance: AFRL/VACA
Author(s): McRuer, Duane, Graham, Dunstan, Krendel, Ezra, Reisener, William, Jr.
Corporate Author(s): Systems Technology, Inc.; The Franklin Institute
Laboratory: Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory
Date of Publication: 1965-07
Pages: 216
Contract: AF 33(616)-7501
DoD Project: 8219
DoD Task: 821905
Identifier: AD0470337
Abstract:
The description of human pilot dynamic characteristics in mathematical terms compatible with flight control engineering practice is an essential prerequisite to the analytical treatment of manual vehicular control systems. The enormously adaptive nature of the human pilot makes such a description exceedingly difficult to obtain, although a quasi-linear model with parameters which vary with the system task variables had been successfully applied to many flight situations. The primary purposes of the experimental series reported are the validation of the existing quasi-linear pilot model, and the extension of this model in accuracy and detail.
Provenance: AFRL/VACA