Adding a motor control component to the operator function model expert system to investigate air traffic management concepts using simulation

This paper describes an enhancement of the operator function model expert system architecture that integrates automated agent control capabilities with an agent based simulation investigating distributed air/ground traffic management. The enhanced architecture incorporates a new task manager module that handles task prioritization using a modified version of cockpit tasks management, a strategies and operational heuristics module that provides methodologies for prioritizing tasks and selecting operator actions, a simulation control module that emulates user input, and an interface to the state variables of the controlled simulation. The paper also discusses a new data visualization and analysis tool for analyzing the performance of the automated agent