Ergonomic evaluation for mobile agricultural machinery

移动式农业机械工效评价

• 批准号: 217180-2013
• 负责人: Mann, Daniel
• 金额: $ 1.89万
• 依托单位: University of Manitoba
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=570110
• 关键词: Ergonomic; evaluation; mobile; agricultural; machinery

Any visit to an exhibition of agricultural machinery will confirm that these machines are becoming increasingly complex due to the incorporation of new technologies. The current trend is to automate some portion of the tasks traditionally completed by the human operator. Auto-steer technology is an example of automation that is becoming increasingly common on Canadian farms. Research done over the past decade to understand the impact of guidance technology on the mental workload of the human operator using a driving simulator has enabled me to become a pioneer in the application of automation to mobile agricultural machines. My research over the past 5 years has shown that the ergonomic impacts of guidance systems cannot be considered in isolation because automation of the guidance task can change the nature of the remaining tasks. On-going research is necessary to understand how to design automation for mobile agricultural machines that avoids degradation of skills and allows the human operator to maintain an appropriate level of understanding of the machine functions during periods of automation. In the next 5 years, I will focus on short-term objectives to determine an appropriate automation design for a mobile agricultural machine, to identify the appropriate feedback to maintain an acceptable level of situation awareness for the operator of a semi-autonomous mobile agricultural machine and to investigate whether an external stressor changes the preferred level of automation for a semi-autonomous mobile agricultural machine. The research being conducted in the Agricultural Ergonomics Laboratory at the University of Manitoba is unique in North America and is needed to address a void in the published literature. Canadian farmers will benefit from future agricultural machines having automation features designed from a human factors perspective; such machines will reduce operator workload and improve driver awareness.

任何参观农业机械展览会都会证实，由于新技术的引入，这些机器变得越来越复杂。目前的趋势是将传统上由人类操作员完成的任务的一部分自动化。自动转向技术是自动化的一个例子，在加拿大农场越来越普遍。在过去的十年里，为了了解导航技术对使用驾驶模拟器的人类操作员的心理工作负荷的影响，我进行了研究，这使我成为自动化应用于移动的农业机械的先驱。我过去5年的研究表明，导航系统的人体工程学影响不能孤立地考虑，因为导航任务的自动化可能会改变其余任务的性质。正在进行的研究是必要的，以了解如何设计自动化的移动的农业机械，避免退化的技能，并允许人类操作员保持适当水平的理解机器的功能在自动化期间。在接下来的5年里，我将专注于短期目标，以确定一个适当的自动化设计的移动的农业机器，以确定适当的反馈，以保持一个可接受的水平的情况下意识的半自主移动的农业机器的操作员，并调查是否外部压力改变了半自主移动的农业机器的首选自动化水平。在马尼托巴大学农业人类工程学实验室进行的研究在北美是独一无二的，需要解决出版文献中的空白。加拿大农民将受益于从人为因素角度设计的具有自动化功能的未来农业机器;这些机器将减少操作员的工作量并提高驾驶员的意识。