The evaluation of the advanced control room
- Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)
- Industrial Electronics and Systems Laboratory, IESL, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., 1-1 Tsukaguchi-Honmachi 8-chome, Amagasaki, Hyogo, 661-8661 (Japan)
The advanced control rooms (ACRs) of nuclear power plants (NPPs) are featured with visual display units (VDU) rather than the analog meters-and-panels in the conventional control rooms. Various studies have shown that human factor engineering characteristics would affect greatly the safety and reliability of an NPP. It is therefore necessary to evaluate such factors objectively and quantitatively. But it is difficult to do so due to the flexible and variable ways to implement VDU-based interfaces. In addition, the human factors issues are different from the ones in the conventional interface. The attentions were mainly paid on the rules concerning with the design and operation of a control room in NPP, in order to develop the evaluation methods and practical system for ACRs within the national and international rules and standards. The evaluation methods would focus on the dynamic performances of interactions between operators and ACR, which would be simulated by computers. The evaluation indices that would be implemented into the evaluation system have been discussed and summarized in a systematic manner. The evaluation indices for ACR proposed focus on the characteristics of mental and recognition processes, situation awareness of operators, safety and adaptability of the VDU-based monitoring and operating functions. The proposed indices were divided into two types: dynamic and static indices, corresponding respectively to the performance of dynamic operation in various scenarios and the accordance between the design of ACR and the human factor engineering principles. To be implemented as the computerized indices, the above results would be further discussed and extended with the introduction of the achievements in the field of the ergonomic, psychological, and physiological researches. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21167830
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ICAPP'02: 2002 International congress on advances in nuclear power plants, Hollywood, FL (United States), 9-13 Jun 2002; Other Information: Country of input: France; 7 refs
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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