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

摘要

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.