M. Mulder
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Enroute Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) determine the appropriate course of action by scanning radar displays to identify and select a flight that requires clearances to ensure safe and efficient operations within their airspace sector. After selecting a flight of interest, ATCOs
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Given the expected increase of automation in the vehicles of the future, touchscreens are expected to be used in a wide variety of scenarios, including the ones that can become safety-critical.
One disadvantage of the direct interaction approach that characterizes touchscreen ...
One disadvantage of the direct interaction approach that characterizes touchscreen ...
Aerodynamic stall has been a critical factor in recent aircraft crashes, leading to revisions in the regulations on the fidelity of stall models in flight simulation training devices. However, the updated regulations still lack a clearly defined accuracy required for effective pi
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In Haptic Shared Control (HSC), human-like reference generators and adaptive strategies have shown promising potential for minimizing human-machine conflicts, though these advances have thus far been limited to simple control tasks. This paper extends the application of low-con
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Identification of Biodynamic Feedthrough for Applied Normal Force on Touchscreen Controllers
Towards consistent haptic feedback on the flight deck
Touchscreens are increasingly being integrated into modern aircraft cockpits due to their space-efficiency and adaptability. However, operating touchscreens in turbulent conditions reduces input accuracy and alters the applied force. These issues are caused by involuntary limb mo
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Robust Autopilot Design by Structured H∞ Loop Shaping
An Agile Aerospace Vehicle Application
This study demonstrates an effective systematic control design procedure by applying H∞ Loop-Shaping with a structured controller on an agile aerospace vehicle with a focus on automation. The gain-scheduled implementation is additionally described and tested with non-linear simul
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Individual Differences in Manual Control Cybernetics
Predicting Individual Cybernetic Parameters Using the Human Controller Cost Function
Understanding individual differences in manual control cybernetics plays a principal role in personalizing human-machine systems. While much of the work in cybernetics utilizes models for the average controller, individualized models have also been explored, albeit constrained by
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Recent aircraft have seen the implementation of touchscreens (TSCs) on the flight deck, in sight of more intuitive and direct human-machine interactions. Biodynamic feedthrough (BDFT), i.e., the transfer of the aircraft’s accelerations through the pilot’s body to the control inpu
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As the Flying-V goes through subsequent design iterations, each new model requires dedicated handling qualities research. A part of that work, namely obtaining the handling qualities predictions, is highly repetitive and can be automated. To address that issue, a Python library f
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Future human-machine control tasks with preview (e.g., car driving) are expected to include automation for safety, but keep operators in charge for liability. Such shared control applications require time-varying human identification because the control feedback should be compati
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Haptic Shared Control (HSC) systems offer a means to naturally support human drivers in the transition to automated driving. Tuning of HSC requires knowledge of the neuromuscular system (NMS) of drivers. This MSc thesis project aimed to experimentally validate a linear parameter
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Flying wings are known for their limited lateral-directional stability and handling qualities. This study aims at assessing the lateral-directional handling qualities of a conceptual flying wing aircraft currently in development at TU Delft, the Flying-V. It focuses on two aspec
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In the future, Air Traffic Controllers are expected to work together with more advanced computer-based automation that can automatically take action. The main challenge is then how to design computer-based tools such that they foster acceptance among air traffic controllers. One
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Future ATM systems will rely on automation to make operations more efficient. Creating insight into the inner-workings of automation, also known as agent transparency, is expected to play an important role for effective human-machine collaboration. This research proposes an ecolo
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Human force proprioception has previously been shown to be important in manual control tasks. Recent experiments suggest that force proprioception is more accurate than position proprioception. Still, knowledge about proprioceptive qualities and their relevance in manual control
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In haptic shared control (HSC), an alternative to full automation, a human operator (HO) performs a steering task while being assisted by force feedback on the control device. Human-haptic conflict, caused by misalignment of intentions or different use of reference information, i
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Improved understanding of human adaptation can be used to design better autonomous systems and control systems that can support the human controller when the dynamics of the system that is being controlled suddenly change. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a model-based
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Aircraft are complex systems with, in some cases, high-dimensional nonlinear interactions between control surfaces. When a failure occurs, adaptive flight control methods can be utilised to stabilise and make the aircraft controllable. Adaptive flight control methods, however, re
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The haptic feedback signal in haptic interfaces is usually in the form of a force on the control device. In contrast, the “active side stick”, investigated in the 80s and 90s, uses an admittance display, whereby the position of the device is linked to the feedback signal, and for
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