A procedural validation for Affordance-based Finite State Automata (FSA) in Human-involved Complex Systems.
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- Author:
- Ransikarbum, Kasin
- Graduate Program:
- Industrial Engineering
- Degree:
- Master of Science
- Document Type:
- Master Thesis
- Date of Defense:
- None
- Committee Members:
- Richard Allen Wysk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Allen Wysk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Donovan Koubek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor - Keywords:
- Affordance
Finite State Automata
Human-involved Complex Systems
Validation - Abstract:
- Human-machine cooperative systems area is a popular application area for system theory, where there is the integration between the functionalities of human and system. One such model to explain the characteristic of human-involved in the complex system is an affordance-based Finite State Automata model as proposed by Kim et al. In this particular model, the human behaviors are nondeterministic and the actions of the human are based on the environmental action opportunities, which incorporate the concepts of preconditions within the environment called “affordances” and dual human capability called “effectivity”. The concept of affordance can be explained as the action opportunities that are offered to a human by the environment. The duality of affordance called effectivity is the capability to take an action and belongs to a human. An automaton is a device which is capable of generating a language according to well-defined rules. The term Finite State Automata (FSA) reflects the fact that the state space of the problem is constrained to be in a finite dimension. It consists of a finite number of states and transitions that enable the model to move between states via the predetermined rules. This thesis discusses the completeness of an FSA model along with a procedural validation for affordance-based Finite State Automata. An implementation of the procedural validation is illustrated for a Highway Exit space problem called Highway-Lane-Driver System (HLDS).