Special Seminar: Feedback or Feedforward? How Do Humans Learn to Control Aerospace Systems?
Dr. Jesse Hoagg, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
2:30 PM on 2017-03-30
3-180 Keller Hall
Humans learn to interact with many complex physical systems. For example, humans learn to fly airplanes and helicopters, ride bicycles and unicycles, and drive cars. Our research seeks to address questions of human learning: How do humans learn to control dynamic systems? What control strategies do humans use? What characteristics make a system difficult for humans to control? How can the learning process be enhanced?
This seminar will present results from experiments in which human subjects learn to control different dynamic systems (e.g., a UAV). We develop and use control-system techniques to identify and analyze the control strategies that humans learn. These results provide new insights into how humans learn to interact with dynamic systems, and what characteristics make systems difficult for humans to control. The study of human learning has application to human-in-the-loop technologies such as aircraft, UAVs, active prostheses, robotic-therapy devices for motor rehabilitation, and active exoskeletons.
This seminar will also provide a brief overview of our other research efforts including: attitude control for microrobots and small satellites, cooperative control for UAVs, adaptive flow field estimation for prediction of vapor dispersion, and control methods for highly uncertain dynamic systems.
Bio:
Jesse Hoagg is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky. His research interests include: human learning; cooperative control of aerospace vehicles; orientation control of microrobots and small satellites; and control of highly uncertain systems with applications to aerospace technology. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky, Dr. Hoagg was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan from 2009 to 2010. He worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company from 2006 to 2009. He received the Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan in 2006. He also received an M.S. in mathematics and an M.S.E. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan, and a B.S.E. in civil and environmental engineering from Duke University.