Vidareutveckling och utvärdering av operatörsplatser på svenska stridsfartyg

Sammanfattning

The ability to handle potentially dangerous and hostile situations on a military vessel

requires that the equipment works effectively with the personnel that use it. It is important

that this equipment can be used by different people. An operator on a military vessel

shall be able to handle information about hostile threats, navigation and the steering of

unmanned vehicles. A operator console should therefore be constructed in such a way

that the operator can handle a large flow of information. And the information given by

the technical system should be displayed correctly to facilitate the operators ability to

handle and interpret the information correctly, in order for the operator to make the

correct decision at any given moment. These decisions must often be made during short

periods of time. The operators often sit long hours by their seat and their tasks can be

monotonous.

The purpose of this thesis has been to collect the operators opinions, examine and to

evaluate the ergonomic and physical interface on the existing consoles. Another purpose

have been to give examples of how future operator consoles could be constructed to be

adapted to the many needs of operators.

The investigated tasks performed by the operators showed to be free from physical demanding

and monotonous repetetive work. The mental demand was moderate. The most

significant contributor to workload was temporal demand. The trackballs, joysticks or the

touch sensitive displays was not physically demanding or difficult to activate according to

the end?users. Furthermore no serious shortcomings was found concerning the physical

interface.

The developed concept of future operator consoles have two stacked screens, areas for placing

notes and is better suited than existing consoles for doing office tasks and controlling

remotely operated vehicles.