Content on CD can be found with print thesis held at Turitea library, Palmerston North. Content: Chapter 8 Appendix 8.1. PLC Code 8.2. Mean-Shift Code 8.3. Webcam Interface HTML Code 8.4. PIC18F4520 / In the rapid development of flexible automation and the broad application of computer technology, industrial monitor software has played an integral role in all kinds of industrial areas. It allows operators to monitor and control a plant in real-time with feedback from any number of processes. Traditionally industrial monitor software exhibits low efficiency, lack of reliability, non-reconfigurable and does not support multi-communication protocols, as is required for the exchange of data from outside of the factory. (Fan, 2006) Configuration software is basically type of the industrial automation and process monitor and control application. It supports Human Machine Interface (HMI), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, realizes interlink between low level device and upper management network. Nowadays, with the advent of Configuration Software, engineers can readily construct field control systems with minimal developmental time and cost while allowing the combination of a plethora of user requests and control. The primary objective of this thesis is to develop a web base application with surveillance ability to realize remote control of an ABB IRB 340 Flexpicker robot through Siemens Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system. The communication between the application and robot system is to be built using configuration software to link a number of third party devices through the inclusion of OLE for Process Control (OPC) techniques, graphical design editors, web navigators, and tag management. The thesis also introduces a vision system with trig-board design for object recognition and tracking.

Thesis (M. S.)--Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Committee Chair: Arthur D. Fisk; Committee Member: Gregory M. Corso; Committee Member: Wendy A. Rogers.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Arkin, Ronald C.; Committee Member: Christensen, Henrik I.; Committee Member: Fisk, Arthur D.; Committee Member: Ram, Ashwin; Committee Member: Thomaz, Andrea. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1980. / Thesis Advisor(s): Neil, Douglas. Second Reader: Moroney, William. "March 1980." Description based on title screen as viewed on May 25, 2010. DTIC Descriptor(s): Data Displays, Man Machine Systems, Cockpits, Performance (Human), Reaction Time, Pilots, Analysis Of Variance, Theses, Coding, Colors, Errors, Symbols, Cathode Ray Tube Screens, Color Vision, Alphanumeric Displays DTIC Identifier(s): Color Coding. Author(s) subject terms: Coding Techniques, Symbols,Colors, Reaction Time, Performance, Errors, Alphanumerics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-66). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-105). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-105).

With the growing complexity of vehicle control systems it is becoming increasingly important to understand the interaction between drivers and vehicles. Existing driver models do not adequately characterise limitations resulting from drivers’ physical systems. In particular, sensory dynamics limit the ability of drivers to perceive the states of real or simulated vehicles. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to understand the impact of sensory dynamics on the control performance of a human driver in real and virtual environments. A new model of driver steering control is developed based on optimal control and state estimation theory, incorporating models of sensory dynamics, delays and noise. Some results are taken from published literature, however recent studies have shown that sensory delays and noise amplitudes may increase during an active control task such as driving. Therefore, a parameter identification procedure is used to fit the model predictions to measured steering responses of real drivers in a simulator. The model is found to fit measured results well under a variety of conditions. An initial experiment is designed with the physical motion of the simulator matching the motion of the virtual vehicle at full scale. However, during more realistic manoeuvres the physical motion must be scaled or filtered, introducing conflicts between measurements from different sensory systems. Drivers are found to adapt to simple conflicts such as scaled motion, but they have difficulty adapting to more complicated motion filters. The driver model is initially derived for linear vehicles with stochastic target and disturbance signals. In later chapters it is extended to account for transient targets and disturbances and vehicles with nonlinear tyres, and validated once again with experimental results. A series of simulations is used to demonstrate novel insights into how drivers use sensory information, and the resulting impact on control performance. The new model is also shown to predict difficulties real drivers have controlling unstable vehicles more reliably than existing driver models.

This paper investigates the effects of automating system administration within a virtualized server environment. For system administrators, creation and configuration of new Virtual Machines has shown to be a common, and yet time and manual labour consuming task. Thus, this process has been studied thoroughly to find out in what degree it will lend itself to automation. The nature of the process was found to be well-suited for a high degree of automation. The automation tool is developed, presented and evaluated. A series of quantitative tests were orchestrated, testing both manual configuration and configuration by using the tool. The results were analysed, and it became visible that the manual configuration has an interruptive behaviour which is not the case in the produced process. The time improvements of the automation are approximated from the gathered test data and the results show a significant improvement in process speed-up with a test average of 300% corresponding to roughly 22 minutes per configured VM. Note that when calculating time saving and process speed-up the assumption is made that two employees are depending on the configuration which has been seen often to be the case. This work has shed light on the need for a more holistic estimation model of calculating process speed-up when you have factors as multiple people being dependent on a process and added time due to loss of operator focus (e.g. due to interruptive behaviour during the process). Furthermore, a strong case is made for the implementation of process automation in administrat ive tasks within virtualized server environments.