Comprehensive evaluation of ergonomics of civil aircraft cockpit display touch control system

DONG Lei; XIANG Chenyang; ZHAO Changxiao; DANG Xiangjun; SHI Chunlei

doi:10.7527/S1000-6893.2020.24053

ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA >

2021 , Vol. 42 >Issue 6: 624053 - 624053

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7527/S1000-6893.2020.24053

Special Topic of Avionics and Utility Systems

Comprehensive evaluation of ergonomics of civil aircraft cockpit display touch control system

DONG Lei ,
XIANG Chenyang ,
ZHAO Changxiao ,
DANG Xiangjun ,
SHI Chunlei

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1. Key Laboratory of Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Technology, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China;
2. Civil Aircraft Airworthiness and Repair Key Laboratory of Tianjin, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China;
3. School of Airworthiness, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China

Received date: 2020-04-03

Revised date: 2020-05-18

Online published: 2020-07-06

Supported by

Joint Found of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Civil Aviation Administration of China(U1933106);Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(20185167017);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (3122019167)

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Touch control technology will be extensively applied in civil aircraft cockpits in the future; however, no ergonomic evaluation system and evaluation method for the display touch system of civil aircraft cockpits exist currently. Aiming at this problem, we first sort out the current standards and norms related to the touch control system of civil aircraft cockpit displays, and propose the man-machine ergonomic evaluation index system of civil aircraft cockpit display touch control systems in combination with the human factor investigation items in airworthiness regulations. Secondly, considering the fuzziness and grayness of the evaluation indexes, we improve the traditional fuzzy hierarchy comprehensive evaluation algorithm from two directions of data aggregation processing and index weight determination based on the gray correlation analysis. The expert reliability coefficient modified rank matrix is constructed to realize the quantitative description of expert cognitive characteristics, and the man-machine ergonomic comprehensive evaluation model of civil aircraft cockpit display touch control systems is established. Finally, combined with the ergonomic evaluation test cases of civil aircraft cockpit displays and touch systems under the project ACROSS, the influence of the configuration strategy of cockpit displays and touch systems on the ergonomic efficiency of the system is analyzed, and the applicability and rationality of the evaluation system and evaluation method are verified.

Key words： touchscreen; ergonomics; civil cockpits; fuzzy hierarchy comprehensive evaluation; gray correlation

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DONG Lei , XIANG Chenyang , ZHAO Changxiao , DANG Xiangjun , SHI Chunlei . Comprehensive evaluation of ergonomics of civil aircraft cockpit display touch control system[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2021 , 42(6) : 624053 -624053 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2020.24053

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