Human-in-the-Loop Vehicle ReID

Since the advent of computer control based industrial automation processes in the mid sixties, engineers have been continuously striving to minimize the discrepancies between a human's cognitive model of what he wants to accomplish and the control system's understanding of the task. Continued success comes in the form of improved system performance and safety, and greater reliability. Such improvements have resulted in the gradual elimination of the mundane tasks previously accomplished by operators, thus allowing the human in the loop to handle the more challenging tasks of supervision, exception control, optimization tasks and maintenance duties. Hence over the last 50 years a clear division of responsibilities between the human and the machine has evolved based on the optimal ability of each. Maximising to the utmost this human-machine collaboration, however, depends on continued technology development in three major areas -decision support tools; ergonomics and visualization technologies; and ease-of-use of complex systems. The optimal synthesis of these three fields creates the state-of-the-art operator environment of modern automation systems.