Modeling the Human Gunner in an Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) Tracking Task

Abstract

This paper describes the formulation and validation of a human gunner model suitable for inclusion into a general anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) attrition algorithm. An optimal control theoretic model with modifications appropriate to a simulated AAA tracking task is shown to describe the human gunner's input-output response characteristics. Experimental data from manned AAA simulations are used in formulating and validating the optimal control gunner model. The gunner model incorporates a proportional-integral-derivative (P-I-D) controller structure and includes target trajectory dependent parameters to account for the adaptive characteristics of the human controller. The model formulation is in terms of the tracking error and a sufficient number of its higher order derivatives.

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