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Patel, Devashish (author)The human operator's manual control behaviour under time-invariant conditions has been successfully modelled. However, significant gaps remain in understanding and modelling adaptive manual control behaviour under time-varying conditions. One such less-understood aspect is the pilot's ability to detect changes in time-varying controlled element...master thesis 2024
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van Dillen, Bob (author)The introduction of Trajectory Based Operations (TBO) is set to change the operation on all levels of Air Traffic Control (ATC), including aerodrome control. Here, adherence to a planned four-dimensional trajectory is important to achieve a stable operation. At the same time, this concept provides possibilities for support tools to be used in...master thesis 2024
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Mckenzie, Max (author)Haptic shared controllers (HSCs) are a promising solution to prevent human over-reliance on automation during tasks such as car driving. However, research has shown that if the HSC is tuned incorrectly, then there is a risk of haptic conflicts between the human and HSC. To address this challenge, this paper presents the design and implementation...master thesis 2024
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Van Droogenbroeck, Chloë (author)Roll reversal errors, where the pilot tries to steer the aircraft back to wings-level but unintentionally increases the bank angle instead, have contributed to several accidents. Previous studies have shown that these errors can be caused by misinterpreting the attitude indicator (AI), with the figure-ground relations cited as contributing to...master thesis 2024
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- Eppenga, Thomas (author) master thesis 2024
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Evertsen, Fleur (author)Spatial disorientation (SD) is one of the main causes of incidents and accidents in aviation. While most studies have investigated the effect of SD on the control task, we tested the effect of SD on cognitive performance in an operationally representative environment.<br/>Thirteen Dutch military helicopter pilots flew scenarios with six...master thesis 2023
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Ortiz Moya, Álvaro (author)The identification of time-varying, adaptive behaviour of a human operator in basic manual control tasks is undoubtedly under development since most methodologies only account for time-invariant systems. Previous authors have proved that estimation techniques based on ARX structures can generally identify the HO model parameters. Nonetheless,...master thesis 2023
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Li, David (author)Technological devices are ubiquitous, think of for example smartphones and in-vehicle information systems. Both can contribute towards distracted driving where the visual field of the human controller is shifted away from the primary control task. In this paper a neural network model is trained using the InceptionTime architecture and used to...master thesis 2023
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Bogaerts, Ward (author)Today, most fatal accidents in commercial aviation are caused by loss of control in flight. Due to the increased reliance on automation and pilots being moved out of the loop, startling and surprising events can be contributing factors. To more effectively train pilots, startle and surprise are to be included in training scenario’s. A subjective...master thesis 2023
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Barragan, Martin (author)While human control behavior is well-understood in continuous control tasks, little is known about how human operators detect sudden changes in the controlled element dynamics. This paper focuses on modeling this detection phase for pursuit tracking tasks. Potential triggers for the human operator to detect changes in the controlled element...master thesis 2023
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Six, Kobi (author)The aviation industry's reliance on automation raises concerns about pilot complacency, necessitating continuous pilot proficiency measures. To that end, real-time pilot skill feedback is vital—through alerts on declining skill levels or scalable levels of autonomy. Current cybernetic methods are limited as they assume linearity and time...master thesis 2023
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Vaiopoulos, Paris (author)The joint management of airspace by human controllers and automated agents is gaining prevalence in nextgeneration Air Traffic Control (ATC). In such settings, human controllers are challenged with maintaining situation awareness while dealing with intricate and often opaque automated technologies. This study probed the potential of a concept...master thesis 2023
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Elbertse, Mitchel (author)Autonomous vehicles are becoming increasingly prevalent in society, but the transition from active driver to passive passenger is known to increase the risk and severity of motion sickness. Motion anticipation is a critical factor in this difference, and visual information is known to be a major contributor to motion anticipation. However, the...master thesis 2023
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van den Eijkel, Simon (author)This study investigated the effect of manual and autopilot control on hazard and failure detection in aviation, in cases where the autopilot can masks or diminishes cues of aircraft movement. This mechanism could result in loss of situation awareness, upsets and ultimately accidents. Twenty airline pilots participated in an experiment in which...master thesis 2023
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Spek, Wouter (author)This study explored several anticipatory interfaces as motion sickness mitigation tool in autonomously driving vehicles. The interfaces were designed to lower the mismatch between the expected motion and the sensory input in a moving body, by providing anticipatory information on upcoming vehicle motion. The two proposed interfaces were a Light...master thesis 2023
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- Bakker, Roemer (author) master thesis 2023
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van Selling, Stijn (author)The Dutch Air Traffic Control has implemented fixed approach trajectories within approach control during night operations when traffic density is low. During the day, when traffic density is higher, vector-based operations are used. The Dutch Air Traffic Control aims to implement fixed approach trajectories when traffic density is high. This...master thesis 2023
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Piras, Matteo (author)Startle and surprise training interventions developed and tested in previous research have shown how falling back to mnemonic aid procedures when experiencing an unexpected event during flight can ameliorate the effects of startle and surprise responses. The current research follows up on the recommendations provided by Van Middelaar et al. on...master thesis 2022
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Stienstra, Amber (author)Increasing levels of automation in the ATM system are required to allow for higher traffic densities without exceeding the ATCo’s mental capacity. Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre envisions to first automate the control of, so called, ``basic’’ traffic. For this strategy to work, an allocation model is required to determine the complexity of...master thesis 2022
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Güngen, Berna (author)In current spatial orientation models, vertical acceleration (heave) is not coupled with pilot pitch perception, although such a coupling may be present. Therefore, in this study it is investigated whether a heave cue can increase perceived pitch in pilots.<br/><br/>Airline pilots (n = 20) performed a pitch perception task in a hexapod simulator...master thesis 2022