21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-6.3.2

NONLINEAR PILOT IN THE LOOP PERFORMANCE USING A MODIFIED CROSSOVER MODEL

Innocenti M., Petretti A., Vellutini M.
University of Pisa, Italy

Keywords: modified crossover model, pilot in the loop

The present paper describes a modelling structure of the pilot during compensatory tracking tasks, when his/her behavior shows nonlinear characteristics such as command saturation. Unlike linear behavior, which is well described in the literature with frequency domain, as well as algorithmic time domain methods, nonlinear behavior is still an active source of research. The proposed model structure stems from experimental verification of the relationship between saturated pilot commands and threshold values on error rate.

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