24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-7.2.3 (St.)

FLIGHT CONTROLLER DESIGN VIA A NEW METHOD TO ESTIMATE WORK LOAD LEVELS

E. Itoh
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Keywords: workload, pilot model, manual control, human-friendly operation, controller design

This paper is concerned with flight controller design which ensures human-friendly operation through a new method to estimate workload levels. This research carried out manual control experiments which are analogous to longitudinal dynamics of aircraft in the effect of disturbance input. Based on control theory, high-order and two-block pilot models are identified from experimental data.

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