Richard J Jagacinski, John M Flach

Control Theory for Humans

Quantitative Approaches To Modeling Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Control Theory is a standard course taken by engineers. This book, from the psychological point of view, looks at manual control. The authors ask students to imagine themselves as part of the manual control system to better learn theconcepts of the field

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 192mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780805822939
• ISBN-10: 0805822933
• Artikelnr.: 40538265

Autorenporträt

Richard J Jagacinski, John M. Flach

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Perception/Action: A Systems Approach. Closing the Loop.
Information Theory and Fitts' Law. The Step Response: First-Order Lag.
Linear Systems: Block Diagrams and Laplace Transforms. The Step Response:
Second-Order System. Nonproportional Control. Interactions Between
Information and Dynamic Constraints. Order of Control. Tracking. There Must
Be 50 Ways to See a Sine Wave. A Qualitative Look at Fourier Analysis. The
Frequency Domain: Bode Analysis. The Frequency Domain: Describing the Human
Operator. Additional Adaptive Aspects of the Crossover Model. Driving
Around in Circles. Continuous Tracking: Optimal Control. Estimating and
Predicting the State of a Dynamic System With Lag-Like Calculations.
Varieties of Variability. Lifting a Glass of Juice. Sine Wave Tracking Is
Predictably Attractive. Going With the Flow: An Optical Basis for the
Control of Locomotion. Fuzzy Approaches to Vehicular Control. Learning to
Control Difficult Systems: Neural Nets. Some Parallels Between Decision
Making and Manual Control. Designing Experiments With Control Theory in
Mind. Adaptation and Design. Appendix: Interactive Demonstrations.