Cognitive Workload Assessment of Aircraft Pilots

A Composite Cognitive Workload Assessment System in Pilots Under Various Task Demands Using Ensemble Learning

Computer-assisted cognitive function assessment of pilots

in an environment unforgiving of human error, where cognitive failure can lead to catastrophic consequences. Cognitive function testing is one means of selecting mentally capable pilots. It is also a means of screening for covert disease, and it can be used to establish baseline performance data and provide ongoing monitoring of health. (For these reasons, cognitive function testing of all acti...

Prevalence of Backache in Aircraft Pilots

General medical practitioners in the air force often find Backache (BA) an occupational sequel in pilots. BA is often due to prolonged sitting, ineffective lumbar support, poor posture, having to lean forward to reach for navigational buttons and vibrations that can produce disc damage via microtrauma [1]. It is difficult to make a clear association between the type of aircraft and BA [2]. Howe...

Neuro - ergonomic Research for Online Assessment of Cognitive Workload

This paper investigates mental workloadassessment using statistical features derived fromelectroencephalography (EEG) signals. Mean, root meansquared, and correlation-based features are extracted from dataincluding EEG signal recordings of five participants performinga reading task with three difficulty levels of low, medium, andhigh and a baseline condition. Results rev...

The optokinetic cervical reflex in pilots of high-performance aircraft.

BACKGROUND For over 60 yr, researchers and engineers have based investigations and the design of cockpit displays and structures upon the presupposition that during flight the pilot maintains a head alignment coincident with the aircraft's vertical axis (z-axis). Recent simulator studies have verified the existence of a pilot neck reflex which refutes this long-standing assumption. This reflex,...