Simulation of an Affordance-Based Human-Machine Cooperative Control Model Using an Agent-Based Simulation Approach

An automated system relies mostly on a robot, rather than a human operator. In the automated system considered in this paper, a human operator mainly verifies the product quality, where the performance of the human is affected by his or her characteristics. To present this kind of system, an ABM is better than DES to simulate the role of the human operator. This is because the human characteristics are dynamic and are affected significantly by time and environment. This paper presents a DES-ABM model which simulates the performance of a human operator in a human-machine cooperative environment. It may enable this model to be utilized for further development in controller toward the supervisory control.