Abstract

Control augmentation is a control strategy that has been wildly studied in human-in-the-loop systems. A human control model is crucial to the performance of such control augmentation since it allows the controller to act accordingly via predicting the human operator's control behavior. The benefit of the control augmentation is limited by the fact that the human control models are inaccurate in general. In this study, two types of uncertainties, human vision distortion and internal vehicle model distortion are investigated. Based on the proposed models, a Hidden Markov Model based control augmentation framework is studied to assist human operators to control dynamic systems to precisely follow the desired commands. The proposed method is first studied for a truck in row alignment scenarios. Later, the method is improved for a general class of dynamic human-in-the-loop systems. A new general form of the human internal vehicle model is proposed to describe the operator's understanding about the dynamics. A recursive, closed-form solution of the internal vehicle model parameters is derived for a class of dynamical systems so that the computational cost is significantly reduced.

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Graduation Date

2021

Semester

Fall

Advisor

Xu, Yunjun

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Department

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Degree Program

Mechanical Engineering

Format

application/pdf

Identifier

CFE0008816; DP0026095

URL

https://purls.library.ucf.edu/go/DP0026095

Language

English

Release Date

December 2026

Length of Campus-only Access

5 years

Access Status

Doctoral Dissertation (Campus-only Access)

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