Control Theory for Humans Quantitative Approaches to Modeling Performance

Name: Control Theory for Humans Quantitative Approaches to Modeling Performance
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ISBN: 9780805822939

ISBN-10: 0805822933

ISBN-13: 9780805822939

Edition: 2003

Authors: Richard J. Jagacinski, John M. Flach

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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

Book details

List price: $77.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 10/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.57" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



About the Authors


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



Interactive Demonstrations


Author Index


Subject Index