Title:
Aiding the Pilot in Flight Control Fault Detection
Aiding the Pilot in Flight Control Fault Detection
| dc.contributor.advisor | Pritchett, Amy R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chiecchio, Jerome Jose Andres | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Johnson, Eric N. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | New, Michael D. | |
| dc.contributor.department | Aerospace Engineering | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-07-28T17:50:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-07-28T17:50:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-01-21 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Three flight simulator experiments examined how a health monitoring system may aid pilots in detecting flight control faults. The first experiment introduced an unexpected fault in the flight control system during an approach to a fictitious airport. The second experiment used a factorial design of (1) presence ?? notof a Fault Meter display and (2) presence ?? not ?? an Alerting System, which could have one or two phased alerts. In half the runs, a fault was triggered at some point, and pilot response was recorded. The next experiment comprised one flight in which pilots were given a false alarm by these systems, testing for automation bias. No consistent pilot response was found to the faults, with pilots sometimes successfully landing the aircraft, sometimes immediately or eventually initiating a go-around, and sometimes loosing aircraft control and crashing. The pilots were not able to identify the fault in 11% of the cases. Tunnel tracking error increased following the faults and the false alarm, suggesting it may be both a manifestation of attempts to diagnose a fault and a cue to pilots of a problem. Finally, the triggering of a false alarm showed the existence of automation bias induced after a small number of interactions with the HMS. | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | M.S. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 1917880 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/6833 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Alerting system | en_US |
| dc.subject | Human factors | |
| dc.subject | Aircraft cockpit | |
| dc.subject | Tunnel in the sky | |
| dc.title | Aiding the Pilot in Flight Control Fault Detection | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Engineering | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering | |
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