Teleoperator response characteristics

Some results of an ongoing study of the development of human response models in high-stress environments in which the decision-maker must contend with considerable sensory and situational ambiguity are described. The motivating application is a tactical system that incorporates a teleoperated vehicle. The nonlinear environment describing the corporeal-external interface is decomposed into coupled micro- and macro-dynamic models. A rational decision-maker hypothesis leads to an optimization problem that involves the estimation of the current dynamic state of the encounter as an intermediate step. The resulting model is of an orthodox form with natural parameters adjustable for different situations, and it permits the inclusion of distinctively human nodes conventional simulation models. After validation, this model could replace or supplement a significant fraction of the human testing currently required