A three-component model of the control error in manual tracking of continuous random signals

Human Factors

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 985-1000

  Gerisch, Hans ^a   Staude, Gerhard ^a   Wolf, Werner ^a   Bauch, Gerhard ^b  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

error model; human operator; tracking performance

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TRACKING; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; ERROR MODEL; HUMAN OPERATOR; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; THREE-COMPONENT MODELS; TRACKING PERFORMANCE;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; TIME DELAY;

TARGET TRACKING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884698823     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720813480387     Document Type: Article

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