OBJECTIVE This article is an investigation of the effectiveness of sonifications, which are continuous auditory alerts mapped to the state of a monitored task, in supporting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) supervisory control. BACKGROUND UAV supervisory control requires monitoring a UAV across multiple tasks (e.g., course maintenance) via a predominantly visual display, which currently is suppo...

OBJECTIVE This study examined operators' capacity to successfully reallocate highly autonomous in-flight missiles to time-sensitive targets while performing secondary tasks of varying complexity. BACKGROUND Regardless of the level of autonomy for unmanned systems, humans will be necessarily involved in the mission planning, higher level operation, and contingency interventions, otherwise know...

A hierarchical control strategy consisting on a supervisory switching of PID controllers, simpli ed using the c-Means clustering technique, is developed and applied to the distributed collector eld of a solar power plant. The main characteristic of this solar plant is that the primary energy source, the solar radiation, can not be manipulated. It varies throughout the day, causing changes in pl...

otal quality management (TQM) is built on the four cornerstones of customer focus, continuous process improvement, management leadership, and employee empowerment. Although empowerment is often the most difficult of the four concepts to implement effectively, organizations that have been successful in empowering their employees invariably see bottomline improvements. Empowerment has been define...

This study examined the relationship between supervisory justice and trust in supervisor and their impacts on extra-role performance. Drawing on fairness heuristic theory, we hypothesized that supervisory interactional justice would significantly affect the two domains of trust in supervisor, namely, reliance and disclosure, which in turn enhance subordinate extra-role performance. We also pred...

Relevance. Spreading of the COVID-19 epidemic highlighted a number new challenges related to protecting health first-line emergency and specialized medical personnel, as high incidence among healthcare workers can lead risks system collapse. At same time, in interests personnel safety, robotic technologies be applied for heavy dangerous works air disinfection enclosed environments. Intention: T...