Perception and Behavioral Phase Coherence Zones in Passive and Active Control Tasks in Yaw

Beckers, Niek; Pool, Daan M.; Paassen, M. M. van; Mulder, Max

doi:10.2514/6.2012-4794

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“…To measure the effects of degrading quality of motion feedback on human operator tracking behavior with and without additional outside visual cues, the same yaw-axis tracking task as studied in Ref. 22 is considered. In this tracking task the human operator is presented with the tracking error e on a HUD shown in Figure 1, in which the lateral displacement of the green line with respect to the fixed crosshair indicates the tracking error.…”

Section: Iia Control Taskmentioning

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“…The controlled element dynamics H c (jω) in this study are a low-order linear approximation of the yaw dynamics of the AH-64 Apache, which are given by Eq. (1): 3,22,23…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These phase-mismatches were chosen based on the results of the experiments of Ref. 22, where clear differences in the perceived simulator motion fidelity over these settings were reported.…”

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“…The goal of the current study is to perform an explicit side-by-side comparison of the effects of varying motion cueing settings on human tracking behavior with and without an outside visual present. This is realized by measuring tracking behavior in a similar target-following disturbance-rejection yaw-axis tracking task as considered in an earlier experiment by Beckers et al, 22 but where the presence of an outside visual scene and variations in the provided motion feedback are independently varied. In the experiment, a compensatory display is presented to participants using a head-up-display (HUD), overlaid on either a homogeneous black background or a realistic outside visual scene.…”

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“…In the experiment, a compensatory display is presented to participants using a head-up-display (HUD), overlaid on either a homogeneous black background or a realistic outside visual scene. The controlled element dynamics are a low-order of AH-64 Apache yaw dynamics, 3,14,22,23 which are known to require significant human operator lead equalization. A no motion feedback condition was tested, in addition to three different break frequency settings for a unity-gain high-pass yaw motion filter (0, 0.58, and 1.73 rad/s), resulting in 0 deg, 30 deg, and 60 deg phase distortion at 1 rad/s.…”

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Interactions of Outside Visual Cues and Motion Cueing Settings in Yaw Tracking

Peterse

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Paassen

2016

AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference

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Knowledge of how human operators' tracking behavior is affected by simulator motion cueing settings is of great value for flight simulator design and fidelity evaluations. Previous studies have revealed strong effects of degraded motion cueing quality on human operator control behavior in compensatory tracking, but the presented visual cues in such studies are often not consistent with what operators perceive in more realistic settings, as they typically do not include the visual cues provided by the out-of-the-window view from their vehicle. This paper aims to investigate the effects of the interaction of such outside visual cues and of motion cueing settings on human operator behavior. Thereto, an experiment in a flight simulator was conducted in which participants performed a yaw-axis target-following disturbance-rejection tracking task. The presence of an outside visual scene and simulator motion feedback quality were varied independently. In the experiment, motion cues were either absent or presented with varying attenuation induced by changing the break frequency of a first-order high-pass yaw motion filter. The results indicate a strong effect of outside visual cues on human operator control behavior in the absence of motion feedback, which is comparable to the measured effect of motion feedback. Overall, human operator control behavior was found to be less affected by varying motion cueing settings when the outside visual cues were available in parallel.

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Section: Iia Control Taskmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The controlled element dynamics H c (jω) in this study are a low-order linear approximation of the yaw dynamics of the AH-64 Apache, which are given by Eq. (1): 3,22,23…”

Section: Iia1 Controlled Elementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Iiic Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interactions of Outside Visual Cues and Motion Cueing Settings in Yaw Tracking

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2016

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A Cybernetic Approach to Assess Simulator Fidelity: Looking back and looking forward

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AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies (MST) Conference

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Manual Control Adaptation to Variations in Short-Period Natural Frequency and Damping

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Pool

et al. 2019

AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum

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This paper presents the results of a human-in-the-loop experiment performed to investigate the effects of variations in aircraft short-period mode characteristics on human operators' manual control behavior. In the experiment, 15 participants performed a tracking task for a factorial variation in both short-period mode natural frequency (five settings) and damping ratio (three settings). The baseline aircraft dynamics were those of a Cessna Citation aircraft, as used in a number of previous experiments, and the variations in short-period dynamics were chosen to span a range of interest with respect to available handling qualities criteria and Maximum Unnoticed Added Dynamics (MUAD) envelopes. To objectively quantify the induced adaptation of manual control behavior, human operator models were fitted to the collected tracking data. In addition to these control behavior measures also subjective ratings of the noticeability of differences with respect to the baseline aircraft were collected. Overall, the results show consistent adaptation of manual control behavior to variations in both short-period parameters and a worsening of task performance with decreased short-period natural frequency and decreased damping ratio settings. In spite of inconsistencies in the subjective rating data, the overall objective adaptation of manual control dynamics correlates with the subjective noticeability ratings, as well as correspondence of the tested configurations with available MUAD envelopes.

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Perception and Behavioral Phase Coherence Zones in Passive and Active Control Tasks in Yaw

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Interactions of Outside Visual Cues and Motion Cueing Settings in Yaw Tracking

Interactions of Outside Visual Cues and Motion Cueing Settings in Yaw Tracking

A Cybernetic Approach to Assess Simulator Fidelity: Looking back and looking forward

Manual Control Adaptation to Variations in Short-Period Natural Frequency and Damping

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