Stabilizing force feedback in bio-actuated control systems
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1. Aircraft lateral tracking improvement apparatus comprising:
- aircraft maneuvering controls located adjacent a pilot supporting seat in an aircraft cockpit apparatus;
means for conveying a prescribed lateral course to be tracked and a tracking error signal to said pilot;
means for generating a signal representing the incurred G force acceleration of said aircraft along an axis lateral of said pilot;
means including predetermined twelve to fifteen Hertz frequency agonistic to antagonistic muscle transfer tremor attenuation means for generating a maneuvering control bias electrical signal in response to said lateral G force acceleration signal; and
bias force transducer means connected with said maneuvering controls and responsive to said bias electrical signal for applying a muscle tremor attenuation lateral bias force supplementary to one of said agonistic and antagonistic muscle forces to said maneuvering controls.
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Abstract
A biomechanical feedback arrangement wherein a varying force tending to improve the neuromotor tracking response of a human subject, particularly in the presence of lateral or front-back G force fields, is added to the test subject input member of a feedback control system. Use of the biomechanical feedback in a high-performance aircraft and in a ground-based simulator apparatus is also disclosed, along with comparison results from simulator testing of human subjects.
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1. Aircraft lateral tracking improvement apparatus comprising:
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aircraft maneuvering controls located adjacent a pilot supporting seat in an aircraft cockpit apparatus; means for conveying a prescribed lateral course to be tracked and a tracking error signal to said pilot; means for generating a signal representing the incurred G force acceleration of said aircraft along an axis lateral of said pilot; means including predetermined twelve to fifteen Hertz frequency agonistic to antagonistic muscle transfer tremor attenuation means for generating a maneuvering control bias electrical signal in response to said lateral G force acceleration signal; and bias force transducer means connected with said maneuvering controls and responsive to said bias electrical signal for applying a muscle tremor attenuation lateral bias force supplementary to one of said agonistic and antagonistic muscle forces to said maneuvering controls. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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