Synergistic Model of Situational Awareness of the Human Operator

Abstract

AbstractThe problem of forming models of situational awareness using a synergetic approach is considered. It is noted that situational awareness provides a perception of the current situation and allows you to make the right decisions in response to certain threats. The levels of implementation of situational awareness in the human operator are given. The peculiarity of the first level is the need for joint processing of a large amount of heterogeneous information to identify significant facts and critical information about external objects. The task of the second level is to form a holistic picture of the situation, which is based on existing knowledge and previous experience. The third, highest level of understanding of the situation is based on the person's ability to predict the actions of objects and the consequences of these actions. Two important properties of situational awareness of a human operator are highlighted: associativity and ranking of information depending on the context of the problem being solved. It is proposed to form a model of situational awareness based on Haken's synergetic approach. The process of situation recognition using a synergetic model is described. The value of the attention parameter, which characterizes the importance of a specific characteristic of the state of the controlled object, is noted. The associative properties of the synergetic model and its ability to rank the initial information when controlling the helicopter are investigated.KeywordsSituational awarenessSituational modelSynergeticsSituation recognitionAttention parameter