A Synthesis of Human Response in Closed-loop Tracking Tasks

Book excerpt: "Experiments have been conducted to determine the variability in a human subject's control stick response to the stimulus of displayed displacement and of rate of change of displacement to aid in the implementation of the time variations to be included in a linear model of the human subject. Additional tracking tests were made to obtain a definition of the characteristics of the random signal to be added to the model. These two factors, the time variations and the random signal, were then added to the linear model, and the resulting composite model was placed in analog representations of single-loop and multiloop systems. The results demonstrate that this composite model reproduces the dynamic characteristics of the time histories and mean-square system error which more closely match the response obtained with the human subject than does the linear model."--Summary