Toward a human-centered intelligent supervision and assistance for complex technical systems

With the increasing development of complex technical systems such as power supply systems or human-machine-interaction systems, their availability, reliability and safety are always a special interest of researches. In recent years, the concept of human-centered guidance and control has been introduced into the complex technical systems to solve the growing complexity in interdependencies, uncertainties and decision making. In this contribution a human-centered approach, the Situation-Operator-Modeling (SOM), is used as an underlying approach to describe the complex interacting environmental scenes by a network of actions and states. Based on the related formal description of Human-Machine-Interaction, the representation of human behaviors, interactions, and process procedures is performed to build up a framework for the development and the implementation of optimized human-centered supervision and assistance systems. As example to the approach, a cognitive driver supervision system for lane changing maneuvers is given.