Integrated vehicle-based safety systems first annual report

The IVBSS program is a four-year, two phase cooperative research program being conducted by an industry team led by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). The program began in November 2005 and will continue through December 2009 if results from vehicle verification tests conducted in the second year of the program indicate that the prototype system meets its performance guidelines and is safe for use by lay drivers in a field operational test planned for July 2008. The decision to execute Phase II of the program will take place in December 2007. The goal of the IVBSS program is to assess the safety benefits and driver acceptance associated with a prototype integrated crash warning system designed to address rear-end, road departure and lane change/merge crashes on light vehicles and heavy commercial trucks. This report describes accomplishments and progress made during the first year of the program (November 2005-December 2006). Activities during the first year focused on system specification, design and development and construction of the prototype vehicles.National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57183/1/99863.pd

The 11th Space Simulation Conference

Subject areas range from specialized issues dealing with the space and entry environments to the environmental testing of systems and complete spacecraft of present-day vintage. Various papers consider: the test and development of several key systems of the orbiter vehicle; integrated tests of complete satellites; new and unique test facilities developed to meet the demanding requirements of high fidelity simulation of test environments; and contamination species, including the instrumentation for detection and measurement of such. Special topics include improved thermal protection methodologies and approaches, sophisticated sensor developments, and other related testing and development areas

Fifth Annual Workshop on Space Operations Applications and Research (SOAR 1991), volume 2

Papers given at the Space Operations and Applications Symposium, host by the NASA Johnson Space Center on July 9-11, 1991 are given. The technical areas covered included intelligent systems, automation and robotics, human factors and life sciences, and environmental interactions

Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 251)

This bibliography lists 526 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in April 1990. Subject coverage includes: design, construction and testing of aircraft and aircraft engines; aircraft components, equipment and systems; ground support systems; and theoretical and applied aspects of aerodynamics and general fluid dynamics

Aeronautical Engineering: A cumulative index to the 1984 issues of the continuing bibliography

This bibliography is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in NASA SP-7037(171) through NASA SP-7037(182) of Aeronautical Engineering: A Continuing Bibliography. NASA SP-7037 and its supplements have been compiled through the cooperative efforts of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This cumulative index includes subject, personal author, corporate source, foreign technology, contract, report number, and accession number indexes

Proceedings of the Fifth Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems: Professional Development Consortium

Collection of position statements of doctoral students and junior faculty in the Professional Development Consortium at the the Fifth Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Tel Aviv - Yafo

A quantitative framework to assess pilot workload during applications of airborne separation assistance

One of the principal concerns with the introduction of Airborne Separation Assistance System (ASAS) Work Package 1 is the operational flexibility of delegating to pilots responsibility for maintaining separation as in keeping with applications of Limited, Extended and Full Delegation [183]. This operational flexibility, among other things, includes identification of potential problems, generation of solutions to resolve them, and implementation and monitoring of the chosen solution. It has also been predicted that this will introduce new performance issues and present implications that will reflect significant changes in the way pilots and air traffic controllers will perform their respective tasks [4], [174], [175], [176] and [177]. As human performance considerations are expected to be central to the performance of advanced cockpit and Air Traffic Management (ATM) system [11] there is the need to address concerns which arise [11] pertaining to the possibility of adverse changes, impact and implementation on the cognitive and behaviour processes of pilots and air traffic controllers. Against this background, the work in this thesis presents the development of an eighty- five factor task index and self-assessment performance framework for the determination of cognitive and performance challenges of pilots during applications of Limited, Extended and Full Delegation of Airborne Separation Assistance. The quantitative framework is developed using the technique of Critical Task Analysis (CTA) and is based on tasks which are inherent to dynamic situations during each respective application. The performance framework was then incorporated into an existing decision support tool, Multi-criteria Analysis for Concept Evaluation (MACE) [9] whose operating and performance utilities were extensively expanded and modified from forty factors to eighty five factors to present the novel approach of this thesis. This novel approach is the development of another decision support tool, Multi-criteria Analysis for Pilot Evaluation, (MpE). The objectives of MpE are: 1. To obtain quantitative measures of the workload of pilots during the ASAS applications already identified. 2. To clearly delineate the functions of pilot from those of ATC during the respective applications. 3. To predict the effects of change in the tasks environment on the workload of both human operators, pilots and controllers. To illustrate the functionality and capabilities of MpE two thousand hypothetical ASAS applications conducted by pilots were simulated. No statistical methods were employed for arriving at this number of 2000, however it was deemed that the number adequately covered the various combinations of the scenarios within the ASAS applications. To achieve objective three above, three hundred and fifty hypothetical ASAS applications conducted by air traffic controllers were simulations using the programme in its original form of (MACE). Whereas Situation Awareness may not be deemed as an ASAS application it was however included as an ASAS application during both simulations to provide insight into the cognitive processes involved in dimension of regulation and to confirm whether CDTI would enable a better representation of the traffic situation. In this thesis workload is defined as a comparison between Heaven and Hell where the closer to Heaven the workload is seen as easier and the closer to Hell the more difficult. To arrive at the workload measurements for pilots during each respective application the eighty-five factors served as indicators. Then, using a specific value scale provided by the programme these indicators were related to one or several Criteria, (a list provided by the programme expressing human dimensions) through linear regression. A quadratic solution where a positive result indicates the strength of the influence {Heaven) and a negative the weakness of the influence {Hell) provides the final outcome. Of the 2000 ASAS application simulations conducted for pilots, the overall regression coefficient p, (where p indicates the effect of change) derived from the coefficient 05 produced a value of p = 0.956. As this value is nearer to 1 it indicates a positive representation of the distance to Heaven, where the closer to Heaven the workload is seen as easier. Accordingly, from this result one can deduce that the work of pilots during the four ASAS applications will be easier

College of Engineering

Cornell University Courses of Study Vol. 90 1998/9

Woodland handbook for the Pacific Northwest

Second Edition May 1969. Reprinted January 1979. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalo