Human and nonhuman operators in manual control systems.
The human operator in manual control systems is well known from a control theory point of view. The need for highly specialized data in an area which does not permit using human subjects resulted in the study of rhesus monkeys in manual control systems. The performances of monkey and human operators in a simple compensatory control system were similar.
D000818:Animals; D004780:Environment, Controlled; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D008251:Macaca / Q000502:physiology*; D008253:Macaca mulatta / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis