Measurement and evaluation of pilot mental workload based on flight simulation system

The digital simulation technology is adopted to establish the flight environment and scenario, which realizes the flight display instrument interface and unusual attitude recovery task. The human-computer interaction (HCI) experiment is carried out in the flight simulation system, and the behavior performances and physiological parameters are recorded as the evaluation indices of mental workload. Participants are required to perform the unusual attitude recovery tasks and keep monitoring the target flight indicators. Once the unusual attitude occurs, the corresponding operation of steering wheel is expected to be taken immediately to response and eliminate it. The results show that most of behavior performances and physiological parameters are sensitive to mental workload and some of the indices are significantly correlative.