Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the precognitive control behavior of a human operator in manual control systems. For this the experiment is done using several sine-wave inputs, and a model using state-space techniques is developed for the response characterstics of the human operator. The resultant servo model can be used to describe some kinds of functions, e.g., recognition, regulation and operation etc. in the human behavior.
It is postulated that the same dynamics as the command generator is formed internal to the human operator as the result of recognizing the characteristics of the command input. Upon this postulation, a linear model is constructed and the precognitive control behavior of the human operator is represented mathematically.
The portion of the human operator's output that is not related to the system input by the linear model is called the remnant, which is modeled by adding two independent gaussian white noises named the motor noise and the synchronous noise to the linear model.
