Development of the support system for manual operations of a multi-rotor helicopter

In this paper, we consider an operator support system for a class of manual control systems that a human operator manually control a multi-rotor helicopter. The multi-rotor helicopter is used in environmental observations, pesticide applications, disaster damage tracking systems, and so on. However, skillful techniques are required for operations of the multi-rotor helicopter. In fact, serious accidents are caused by human errors. In order to prevent serious accidents, it is important to detect any symptoms of the human error in real time. In this paper, we have proposed a human error detection method and an operator support system which alert the human operator to abnormal operations. The proposed support system is based on the identification method for a smallest model set which are consistent with the input and output data of the manual control system.