Human Factors in Maritime Applications
Tuesday 9th November 2010, 1400hrs–1530hrs
Chaired by Bertil Bjorkman Manning Centered Design in the Netherlands Dr. Wilfried Post, TNO, Netherlands All navies – when taking the initiative to build a new platform – have difficulties in determining at an early phase, the number of people that are needed to sail the planned ship. How do you approach this problem? Where do you start? How can you reduce the complexity of it? Later on, when planning a design trajectory, new questions will arise: How do you reach a cost-effective solution? How do you identify uncertainties, for example about the level of automation to be expected, many years from now? How do you coordinate best so many stakeholders and experts involved in such process? And when a design program has started, again other typical question will come up: how can you get a quick insight in the consequences of design choices? How do you account for your design decisions? At TNO, we have reflected on a dozen human-centered design projects for the RNLN. We have combined many years of developed knowledge, methodologies and tools into one Manning Centered Design framework, aimed at reducing the complexity of such design problems, managing the risks involved, and capturing the applied knowledge and experiences for later use. This paper, will explain the framework, illustrated by two RNLN projects in which it is recently applied: the development of the Oceangoing Patrol Vessel and the Submarine Upkeep program. Human Factors Issues in a Model Based Systems Engineering Perspective Mr. Daniele Frisoni, Selex Sistemi Integrati, Italy This operational paper will describe design results in the application fields of Human Factors Engineering through an innovative model based systems engineering approach. Human Factors analyze the system with a human-based approach, looking at the system by the users’ perspective, designing interaction with the system according to operator profiles. Operator’s interaction with the system is performed through the use of Human Machine Interface mechanism by inserting information to setup system capabilities and checking operational results to monitor system behaviour. The Model Based System Engineering approach allows to build a design structure of system logics through functional and operational chains, focusing on exchanges among system modules. Human Factors studies include also the operator as active part of the functional chains and can therefore be considered as a “module” of the System Model, where all data catalogue is codified in SysML. Next Generation Console Mr. Daniele Frisoni, Selex Sistemi Integrati, Italy The paper will discuss the technical and operational drivers for the design of a new generation console. It can be equipped on board as tactical table on large combat naval units or as command and control console for smaller units. It can also be employed in ashore control centers as device for cooperative planning and for command support. It is the result of a Research and development project that maximizes the costs/benefits ratio with technologies at the state of the art. It is a first step into a new generation of operators-system interactions. The console prototype is realized with a Full HD, 47” monitor enhanced with Touch-Screen technology. Its software is based on Java platform and it is developed exploiting open-source solutions.
A Web Map Server is integrated in the console and it is based on OGC (Open Geographic Consortium) standards. It allows representation of world wide 3D cartography based on Digital Terrain Elevation Data. From Human Factors point of view, new concepts and approaches have been studied to adapt the new technologies to naval operators’ requirements.
The console is also designed to display data from other systems and it can also be inserted as a part of already existing systems. The console is design to be flexible and scalable to cover a wide area of employments in naval domain and it can be easily adapted to any context or application.
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