Assessing the Aircraft Crew Activity Basing on Video Oculography Data

Abstract

Mathematical models and methods for crew training level assessing based on video oculography data are presented. The results obtained are based on comparing the studied fragments of oculomotor activity of pilots with comparable patterns of video oculography data of various types and performance quality contained in a pre-formed specialized database. To obtain estimates, a complex combination of random process analysis and multivariate statistical analysis is used. The “intelligence” of diagnostic tools is contained in empirical data and can flexibly change as they accumulate. The considered example of determining the flight mode and pilot qualification based on video oculography data allows us to talk about the possibility of significant discrimination of the gaze movement trajectories of pilots at different flight phases and significant discrimination of the gaze movement trajectories of experienced and inexperienced pilots at certain phases of flight. An important new component of the presented results is a discriminant analysis for solving the problem of flight exercises classification, based on the principles of quantum computing. The scope of the considered approach is not limited to aviation applications and can be extended to tasks that are similar in content.

Optimizing the mutual arrangement of pilot indicators on an aircraft dashboard and analysis of this procedure from the viewpoint of quantum representations

“…However the real capabilities of such maps are limited, essentially because the non-determinism of SOM clustering and its inefficiency in aligning time series analyzed in the time domain with the structural stability of the solutions that are obtained are questionable [17][18]. With regard to the problem of assessing the conditions of the crew, the studies that were performed [13][14][17][18] have shown that at the present time the most promising and valid methods in this field are non-invasive technologies. These are based on measuring the distribution of visual attention, such as through video oculography and assessment of the parameters of gaze motor activity, with the aid of eye trackers [1].…”