This content is not included in
your SAE MOBILUS subscription, or you are not logged in.
Cockpit Automation: Design and Implementation Issues
Annotation ability available
Sector:
Language:
English
Abstract
Cockpit automation is here and will continue to increase in future aircraft. Concern has been raised about the pilot's roles and responsibilities vis a vis a very sophisticated computer - referred to by the authors as an electronic crewmember or EC. This paper argues that the EC and the pilot can work together as a team, rather than as adversaries. A scheme for characterizing different levels of cockpit automation, and an attendant role for the EC, is reviewed. This is followed by a discussion of those operational situations in which the pilot is most likely to trust the decisions made by the EC as opposed to those situations where the pilot is likely to turn the EC off. The notion of “prime directives” or basic operating rules for the EC is presented as well as a multiple clock concept, a philosophical basis for an adaptive cockpit. The paper concludes with three brief mission scenarios describing various levels of EC/pilot interaction.
Authors
Topic
Citation
Moss, R. and Reising, J., "Cockpit Automation: Design and Implementation Issues," SAE Technical Paper 851921, 1985, https://doi.org/10.4271/851921.Also In
References
- Chorley, R. A. 1984 Aircrew and avionics -friends or foes? AGARD Conference Proceedings No. 371: Human Factors Considerations in High Performance Aircraft Williamsburg, Virginia
- Morris, N.M. Rouse, W.B. Frey, P.R. 1985 Adaptive aiding for symbiotic human-computer control: conceptual model and experimental approach Tech. Report AFAMRL-TR-84-072 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
- Moss, R.W. Raising, J.M. Hudson, N. 1984 Automation in the cockpit: Who's in charge? Proceedings of the Third SAE Aerospace Behavioral Engineering Technology Conference, Long Beach, California
- Rasmussen, J. 1983 Skills, rules, and knowledge; signals, signs and symbols and other distinctions in human performance models IEEE Transactions Systems, Man and Cybernetics 13 3 257 266
- Reising, J.M. Moss, R.W. 1985 2010: the symbionic cockpit Proceedings of the National Avionics and Electronics Conference Dayton, Ohio
- Richter, K.D. 1984 Impact of future aircombat characteristics on pilot performance and cockpit designs AGRD Conference Proceedings No. 371: Human Factors Considerations in High Performance Aircraft Williamsburg, Virginia
- Wiener, E. L. 1985 Beyond the sterile cockpit Human Factors 27 1 75 90