M. Mulder
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Recurrent training is crucial to helping pilots maintain or upgrade their flying skills. However, constantly monitoring and scrutinising pilots during training can lead to performance pressure. If pilots who are under pressure feel that their behaviour is affected it may ultimate
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Pilot's Detection of Change in Aircraft Dynamics
An Open-Loop Stability Model For Varying Display Types and Transition Rates
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 pi
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Supporting Trajectory Based Operations in Aerodrome Control
Supporting the Timing of the Take-off Clearance
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, thi
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Improving Bank Angle Representation on the Primary Flight Display Using Static Monocular Depth Cues
Evaluating the effect of static monocular depth cues on attitude indicator interpretation using misleading motion cues
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
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An important bottleneck in managing inbound traffic capacity is the limited size of the Terminal Manoeuvring Area, which should not become crowded by aircraft arriving from the Control Area. This is done by arrival metering, a process entailing sending aircraft through the Initia
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Using VR Headsets for Helicopter Simulations
Analysing How Field-of-View In VR Headsets Affects Helicopter Pilot Performance
Research into analysing the feasibility of using VR headsets to train helicopter pilots is in its infancy. While enough is known about what effects VR headsets have on pilots, a research gap exists in the field of explaining what exactly causes these effects to occur. This thesis
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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 cyber
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Exploring Motion Sickness Mitigation in Self-Driving Vehicles with Anticipatory Interfaces
Flashing and Zooming over the Road: Anticipatory Interfaces Mitigate Motion Sickness
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
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Decision Support Tool for Time-Based Separation under Fixed Approach Trajectories in Approach Control
Increasing the Efficiency of Approach Control
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
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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 structu
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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.
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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
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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.
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Adaptive Manual Control
Detection of Human Adaptation to Sudden Changes in Controlled Element Dynamics
This study investigates the effectiveness of vehicle dynamics and road environment data for predicting lateral accelerations and yaw rates. This prediction is used to preposition a simulator in anticipation of this motion. A prediction model was created using the road curvature a
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It has been shown that expert gaze behavior can be used to enhance training for novices, among others in the field of laparoscopic surgery. The research in this paper focused on the effect of changing pilot gaze behavior on flight performance and detection task performance. Two g
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JND in Friction
Human Threshold for Perceiving Changes in Friction when Combined with Linear System Dynamics
Understanding human perception of haptic feedback is critical when designing and regulating these control systems. In recent years, experiments have been conducted to determine the Just-Noticeable Difference (JND) in mass-spring-damper dynamics using a hydraulic admittance displa
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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 fo
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