Human Performance Envelope - H2020 Future Sky Safety

Abstract

Adaptive automation appears to be one of the next most challenging milestones in the field of aviation and air traffic management. This approach is aimed to be human centered and has to be user-friendly in order to increase safety. The detection of human operators’ performance inevitably has to be the first step in this activity. Here the edges of acceptable behaviour have to be identified well in time, which means that points where human performance deteriorates have to be found. This has led to the notion of a Human Performance Envelope. Within this context a reliable on-line recording and analysis of operational data is needed. In a second step, these data will then set the trigger and recommend when a redistributions of tasks has to take place and a higher level of automation has to take over. While new identification means like behavioral markers are under investigation, physiological parameters like ECG, EEG and eye-tracking are still prominent candidates thanks to new sensors and improved computational methods.