OTTO

Optimizing the Work-Efficiency of Working Machines

Keywords: Skill evaluation, Human factors, Hidden Markov models, Human adaptive mechatronics, Intelligent coaching systems, Intelligent machines, Intelligent services

In man-machine processes, such as working machines, the human operator plays a significant role in terms of productivity, fuel economy, and quality of the end product. Therefore, the overall performance of the system depends, on one hand, on the technical performance and on the other hand on the performance of man-machine interaction (HMI). The focus of OTTO-project is on the latter. The performance of the HMI includes the performance and skills of the human operator and the performance of the control system responding to the operator's commands. It has been recognized that the performance variations between two operators working with similar machines can be tens of percents. In order to utilize the whole capability of the machine both the technical performance and the human skills need to be optimized. OTTO-project aims to develop methods for improving the work-efficiency of machine operators

Publications

• Samuel Aulanko and Kalevi Tervo,
  "Modeling and evaluation of harbor crane work,"
  in SMC 2009 Proceedings, San Antonio, Texas, USA: IEEE, 2009, pp. 869-874.
• Lauri Palmroth, Kalevi Tervo and Aki Putkonen,
  "Intelligent coaching of mobile working machine operators,"
  in Proceedings of the IEEE 13th International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, Barbados: IEEE, 2009, 6 pp.
  Electronic publication
• Kalevi Tervo,
  "Tutkijavierailu Tokyo Denki University:n (TDU) Research Center for Advanced Technologies (RCAT) -yksikköön,"
  Automaatioväylä, Vol. 2, s. 48, 2009.
  Electronic publication
• Kalevi Tervo, Maurizio Bocca, Lasse M Eriksson and Aino Manninen,
  "Wireless joystick control for human adaptive mechatronics applications: case trolley crane,"
  in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Okayama, Japan: IEEE, 2009, pp. 19-24.
• Kalevi Tervo, Lauri Palmroth and Heikki Koivo,
  "Ihmisen toimintaan mukautuvat älykkäät, opastavat ja valmentavat mekatroniset järjestelmät,"
  in Automaatio XVIII 2009 - Proceedings, Matti Ketonen (ed.), Helsinki, Finland: Suomen Automaatioseura ry, 2009, 6 s.
• Kalevi Tervo, Lauri Palmroth and Aki Putkonen,
  "A hierarchical fuzzy inference method for skill evaluation of machine operators,"
  in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Singapore: IEEE, 2009, pp. 136-141.