ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how people use control devices to control or guide the activity of machinery, vehicles, or processes. One of the first objectives of this chapter is to introduce the reader to some fundamental control concepts, statistics, and applications to provide some perspective on how to model and measure human performance of control tasks. The appropriate selection and arrangement of controls that might be used in vehicles and other devices is then addressed, followed by a discussion of other topics such as fuzzy-control logic and supervisory control. The latter issues are becoming especially important with the development of increasingly sophisticated equipment that can perform many of the functions done by people in the past, including communication.
