Ergonomics of Human Machine Integration in Variable Autonomy

Abstract

“Human technologies are made by humans, for humans”. In recent days pairing people with the system is getting easier. The systems and tools we use are becoming increasingly intelligent and more interconnected with autonomous behavior giving birth to cyber physical systems. The advances in the miniaturization of computation makes our tool behave intelligent using Artificial Intelligence. This intelligence in the form of a software where the inputs are taken from entities of real-time systems. The ultimate goal of the future research should be to emulate the functions of human-human and human-autonomy teams directly and evaluate their joint performance and contributions. Armed with this approach and existing technologies we can uncover novel approaches in Industry 4.0 and this paper ends with the overview of human-machine autonomy and ergonomics at variable autonomy.