Toward Human-in-the-Loop Supervisory Control for Cyber-Physical Networks
For designers of human-autonomy systems, this work provides a framework to optimize task allocation by modeling human decision quality under varying conditions.
The paper introduces a human decision-making model based on mathematical neuroscience to improve supervisory control in cyber-physical networks, demonstrating its ability to explain strategy shifts and incorporate stress/emergency parameters.
This work proposes a novel approach to include a model of making decision in human brain into the control loop. Employing the methodology developed in mathematical neuroscience, we construct a model that accounts for quality of human decision in supervisory tasks. We specifically focus on adaptive gain theory and the strategy selection problem. The proposed model is shown to be capable of explaining the change of a strategy from compensatory to heuristics in different conditions. We also propose a method to incorporate the effect of internal and external parameters such as stress level and emergencies in the decision model. The model is employed in a supervisory controller that dispatches the jobs between autonomy and a human supervisor in an efficient way.