Control Theory for Humans - Quantitative Approaches To Modeling Performance

List of contents

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.

About the author

Richard J Jagacinski, John M. Flach

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: John M Flach, John M. Flach, Richard J Jagacinski, Jagacinski Richard J.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2002
• EAN: 9780805822939
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-2293-9
• No. of pages: 394
• Weight: 730 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; COMPUTERS / Information Theory, Behavioural theory (Behaviourism), Information theory, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Behaviorism