Stability of simulated flight path control at +3 Gz in a human centrifuge

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 394-398

  Guardiera, Simon ^a   Dalecki, Marc ^a   Bock, Otmar ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Aircraft control; Centrifuge; Hypergravity; Manual control; Motor control; Tracking; Vestibular stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PROPRIOCEPTION; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; PROPRIOCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950680295     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2594.2010     Document Type: Article

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