Two manual control systems with rhesus monkey operators have been studied using control theory techniques. The first control system was a single-axis compensatory task; the second was a dual-axis ground-based simulator. The present study summarizes the control theory analysis of these two previous experiments. The crossover model, developed for human operators in manual control systems, was successfully applied to these data. Results of the present study provide additional evidence for monkey-man extrapolation in the area of manual control.
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