Performance Improvement of Crane Operation by the Interactive Adaptation Interface

Abstract

We propose a new crane system using the Interactive Adaptation Interface. This system can adapt to any operator considering the following two points. One is the operator's psychological state and the other is operator's skill. The former is estimated from the skin potential reflex (Galvanic Skin Reflex ; G. S. R. ), and the latter is estimated from the history of the oscillation and command inputs. In order to adapt to an operator, the system tunes its time constant by Recursive Fuzzy Inference. We also propose "Multi Display" for operational assistance. The Multi Display gives several items of information needed for operation of the crane. We constructed a computer simulator based on this crane system, present some experiments using this simulator, and show the effectiveness of the proposed operational assistance system based on the experimental results.