Neurointerfaces: applications

A neurointerface is a nonlinear filtering system based on neural networks that serves as a coupler between a human operator and a nonlinear system or plant that is to be controlled or directed. The purpose of the coupler is to ease the task of the human controller. A neurointerface and a plant disturbance canceller have been applied to the steering system of a truck and trailer(s). The neurointerface is used only while the truck is backing. Backing a truck with two or more trailers is essentially impossible for a professional truck driver, but is easily done by an unskilled driver when using the neurointerface. Neurointerface designs are presented for the truck backer and for human control of construction cranes. The same principles can be applied to ease human control of other complex machines such as aircraft, helicopters, heavy earth moving equipment, robot arms, and so forth.