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Comparison of pilot effective time delay for cockpit controllers used on space shuttle and conventional aircraft
A study was conducted at the Dryden Flight Research Facility of NASA Ames Research Center (Ames-Dryden) to compare pilot effective time delay for the space shuttle rotational hand controller with that for conventional stick controllers. The space shuttle controller has three degrees of freedom and nonlinear gearing. The conventional stick has two degrees of freedom and linear gearing. Two spring constants were used, allowing the conventional stick to be evaluated in both a light and a heavy configuration. Pilot effective time delay was obtained separately for pitch and roll through first-order, closed-loop, compensatory tracking tasks. The tasks were implemented through the space shuttle cockpit simulator and a critical task tester device. A total of 900 data runs were made using four test pilots and one nonpilot (engineer) for two system delays in pitch and roll modes. Results showed that the heavier conventional control stick had the lowest pilot effective time delays. The light conventional control stick had pilot effective time delays similar to those of the shuttle controller. All configurations showed an increase in pilot effective time delay with an increase in total system delay
Separating the regular and irregular energy levels and their statistics in Hamiltonian system with mixed classical dynamics
We look at the high-lying eigenstates (from the 10,001st to the 13,000th) in
the Robnik billiard (defined as a quadratic conformal map of the unit disk)
with the shape parameter . All the 3,000 eigenstates have been
numerically calculated and examined in the configuration space and in the phase
space which - in comparison with the classical phase space - enabled a clear
cut classification of energy levels into regular and irregular. This is the
first successful separation of energy levels based on purely dynamical rather
than special geometrical symmetry properties. We calculate the fractional
measure of regular levels as which is in remarkable
agreement with the classical estimate . This finding
confirms the Percival's (1973) classification scheme, the assumption in
Berry-Robnik (1984) theory and the rigorous result by Lazutkin (1981,1991). The
regular levels obey the Poissonian statistics quite well whereas the irregular
sequence exhibits the fractional power law level repulsion and globally
Brody-like statistics with . This is due to the strong
localization of irregular eigenstates in the classically chaotic regions.
Therefore in the entire spectrum we see that the Berry-Robnik regime is not yet
fully established so that the level spacing distribution is correctly captured
by the Berry-Robnik-Brody distribution (Prosen and Robnik 1994).Comment: 20 pages, file in plain LaTeX, 7 figures upon request submitted to J.
Phys. A. Math. Gen. in December 199
Reflectionless Potentials and PT Symmetry
Large families of Hamiltonians that are non-Hermitian in the conventional
sense have been found to have all eigenvalues real, a fact attributed to an
unbroken PT symmetry. The corresponding quantum theories possess an
unconventional scalar product. The eigenvalues are determined by differential
equations with boundary conditions imposed in wedges in the complex plane. For
a special class of such systems, it is possible to impose the PT-symmetric
boundary conditions on the real axis, which lies on the edges of the wedges.
The PT-symmetric spectrum can then be obtained by imposing the more transparent
requirement that the potential be reflectionless.Comment: 4 Page
Viscous effects on transonic airfoil stability and response
Viscous effects on transonic airfoil stability and response are investigated using an integral boundary layer model coupled to the inviscid XTRAN2L transonic small disturbance code. Unsteady transonic airloads required for stability analyses are computed using a pulse transfer function analysis including viscous effects. The pulse analysis provides unsteady aerodynamic forces for a wide range of reduced frequency in a single flow field computation. Nonlinear time marching aeroelastic solutions are presented which show the effects of viscosity on airfoil response behavior and flutter. Effects of amplitude on time marching responses are demonstrated. A state space aeroelastic model employing Pade approximants to describe the unsteady airloads is used to study the effects of viscosity on transonic airfoil stability. State space dynamic pressure root loci are in good overall agreement with time marching damping and frequency estimates. Parallel sets of results with and without viscous effects reveal the effects of viscosity on transonic unsteady airloads and aeroelastic characteristics of airfoils
Measurements of Pilot Time Delay as Influenced by Controller Characteristics and Vehicles Time Delays
A study to measure and compare pilot time delay when using a space shuttle rotational hand controller and a more conventional control stick was conducted at NASA Ames Research Center's Dryden Flight Research Facility. The space shuttle controller has a palm pivot in the pitch axis. The more conventional controller used was a general-purpose engineering simulator stick that has a pivot length between that of a typical aircraft center stick and a sidestick. Measurements of the pilot's effective time delay were obtained through a first-order, closed-loop, compensatory tracking task in pitch. The tasks were implemented through a space shuttle cockpit simulator and a critical task tester device. The study consisted of 450 data runs with four test pilots and one nonpilot, and used three control stick configurations and two system delays. Results showed that the heavier conventional stick had the lowest pilot effective time delays associated with it, whereas the shuttle and light conventional sticks each had similar higher pilot time delay characteristics. It was also determined that each control stick showed an increase in pilot time delay when the total system delay was increased
Regular and Irregular States in Generic Systems
In this work we present the results of a numerical and semiclassical analysis
of high lying states in a Hamiltonian system, whose classical mechanics is of a
generic, mixed type, where the energy surface is split into regions of regular
and chaotic motion. As predicted by the principle of uniform semiclassical
condensation (PUSC), when the effective tends to 0, each state can be
classified as regular or irregular. We were able to semiclassically reproduce
individual regular states by the EBK torus quantization, for which we devise a
new approach, while for the irregular ones we found the semiclassical
prediction of their autocorrelation function, in a good agreement with
numerics. We also looked at the low lying states to better understand the onset
of semiclassical behaviour.Comment: 25 pages, 14 figures (as .GIF files), high quality figures available
upon reques
Deviations from Berry--Robnik Distribution Caused by Spectral Accumulation
By extending the Berry--Robnik approach for the nearly integrable quantum
systems,\cite{[1]} we propose one possible scenario of the energy level spacing
distribution that deviates from the Berry--Robnik distribution. The result
described in this paper implies that deviations from the Berry--Robnik
distribution would arise when energy level components show strong accumulation,
and otherwise, the level spacing distribution agrees with the Berry--Robnik
distribution.Comment: 4 page
A random matrix approach to decoherence
In order to analyze the effect of chaos or order on the rate of decoherence
in a subsystem, we aim to distinguish effects of the two types of dynamics by
choosing initial states as random product states from two factor spaces
representing two subsystems. We introduce a random matrix model that permits to
vary the coupling strength between the subsystems. The case of strong coupling
is analyzed in detail, and we find no significant differences except for very
low-dimensional spaces.Comment: 11 pages, 5 eps-figure
Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?
Probably not.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
Lower bound on the number of Toffoli gates in a classical reversible circuit through quantum information concepts
The question of finding a lower bound on the number of Toffoli gates in a
classical reversible circuit is addressed. A method based on quantum
information concepts is proposed. The method involves solely concepts from
quantum information - there is no need for an actual physical quantum computer.
The method is illustrated on the example of classical Shannon data compression.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; revised versio
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