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Discussion: Comments on Telepresence and Supervisory Control
Pages 320-322

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From page 320...
... A brief description of the basic objectives of telepresence and supervisory control technologies may help illuminate the questions that arise from the above three viewpoints. The basic objective of telepr-=ence technology is to alleviate the human operator's sense of remoteness in the control station by providing sufficient information to the operator on the activities-= of ~~ ' ~ ' ~~ ~ the content of the last attribute He form" heavily dopers on human capabilities uTxi~r given conditions, on the capabilities arKicharacteristic~ of machines to tee controlled, and on the rapture of tasks to be ac~lished.
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From page 321...
... for a control station in Barth orbit, limited communication bandwidth and some communication time delay between a control station and remote machines, fragile and sensitive nature of space systems a t=leoperator machine will be work mg on, changes in visual conditions in Earth orbit relative to visual conditions on Earth, and so on. The above not==, together with the objective description of telepresence and supervisory control technologies, motivate a few important conclusions.
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From page 322...
... information interface in the control station in a clever way, the better off is the human operator to make control decisions efficiently. Fourth, the RSD effort for advancing Presence and supervisory control technologies should be acoompanled by systematic work on developing a human factors data base and models for understanding and utilizing the results of these evolving technologies.
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