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Title: Human Factors and Data Fusion as Part of Control Systems Resilience

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OSTI ID:961933

Human performance and human decision making is counted upon as a crucial aspect of overall system resilience. Advanced control systems have the potential to provide operators and asset owners a wide range of data, deployed at different levels that can be used to support operator situation awareness. However, the sheer amount of data available can make it challenging for operators to assimilate information and respond appropriately. This paper reviews some of the challenges and issues associated with providing operators with actionable state awareness and argues for the over arching importance of integrating human factors as part of intelligent control systems design and implementation. It is argued that system resilience is improved by implementing human factors in operations and maintenance. This paper also introduces issues associated with resilience and data fusion and highlights areas in which human factors including field studies hold promise.

Research Organization:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC07-99ID-13727
OSTI ID:
961933
Report Number(s):
INL/CON-09-15281; TRN: US200919%%321
Resource Relation:
Conference: HSI 2009 -- 2nd IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction ,Catania, Italy,05/21/2009,05/23/2009
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English