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Download fileMemory pattern identification for feedback tracking control in human-machine systems
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posted on 2019-10-03, 11:20 authored by Miguel Martinez-GarciaMiguel Martinez-Garcia, Eve ZhangEve Zhang, Timothy GordonObjective: The aim of this paper was to identify the characteristics of memory patterns with respect to a visual input, perceived by the human operator during a manual control task, which consisted in following a moving target on a display with a cursor.
Background: Manual control tasks involve nondeclarative memory. The memory encodings of different motor skills have been referred to as procedural memories. The procedural memories have a pattern, which this paper sought to identify for the particular case of a onedimensional tracking task. Specifically, data recorded from human subjects controlling dynamical systems with different fractional order were investigated.
Method: A Finite Impulse Response (FIR) controller was fitted to the data, and pattern analysis was performed to the fitted parameters. Then, the FIR model was further reduced to a lower order controller; from the simplified model, the stability analysis of the human-machine system in closedloop was conducted.
Results: It is shown that the FIR model can be employed to identify and represent patterns in human procedural memories during manual control tasks. The obtained procedural memory pattern presents a time scale of about 650 ms before decay. Furthermore, the fitted controller is stable for systems with fractional order less or equal to 1.
Conclusion: For systems of different fractional order, the proposed control scheme – based on a FIR model – can effectively characterize the linear properties of manual control in humans.
Application: This research supports a biofidelic approach to human manual control modeling over feedback visual perceptions. Relevant applications of this research are: the development of shared-control systems, where a virtual human model assists the human during a control task, and human operator state monitoring.
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School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Human FactorsVolume
63Issue
2Pages
210-226Publisher
SAGE PublicationsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2019-10-24Copyright date
2021ISSN
0018-7208eISSN
1547-8181Publisher version
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