Avionic technology testing by using a cognitive neurometric index: A study with professional helicopter pilots

Gianluca Borghini; Pietro Aricò; Gianluca Di Flumeri; Serenella Salinari; Alfredo Colosimo; Stefano Bonelli; Linda Napoletano; Ana Ferreira; Fabio Babiloni

doi:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319804

Avionic technology testing by using a cognitive neurometric index: A study with professional helicopter pilots

Gianluca Borghini, Pietro Aricò, Gianluca Di Flumeri, Serenella Salinari, Alfredo Colosimo, Stefano Bonelli, Linda Napoletano, Ana Ferreira, Fabio Babiloni

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Abstract

In this study, we investigated the possibility to evaluate the impact of different avionic technologies on the mental workload of helicopter's pilots by measuring their brain activity with the EEG during a series of simulated missions carried out at AgustaWestland facilities in Yeovil (UK). The tested avionic technologies were: i) Head-Up Display (HUD); ii) Head-Mounted Display (HMD); iii) Full Conformal symbology (FC); iv) Flight Guidance (FG) symbology; v) Synthetic Vision System (SVS); and vi) Radar Obstacles (RO) detection system. It has been already demonstrated that in cognitive tasks, when the cerebral workload increases the EEG power spectral density (PSD) in theta band over frontal areas increases, and the EEG PSD in alpha band decreases over parietal areas. A mental workload index (MWL) has been here defined as the ratio between the frontal theta and parietal alpha EEG PSD values. Such index has been used for testing and comparing the different avionic technologies. Results suggested that the HUD provided a significant (p

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	6182-6185
Number of pages	4
Volume	2015-November
ISBN (Print)	9781424492718
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319804
Publication status	Published - Nov 4 2015
Event	37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015 - Milan, Italy Duration: Aug 25 2015 → Aug 29 2015

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Other	37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015
Country	Italy
City	Milan
Period	8/25/15 → 8/29/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing
Biomedical Engineering
Health Informatics

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Borghini, G., Aricò, P., Di Flumeri, G., Salinari, S., Colosimo, A., Bonelli, S., Napoletano, L., Ferreira, A., & Babiloni, F. (2015). Avionic technology testing by using a cognitive neurometric index: A study with professional helicopter pilots. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS (Vol. 2015-November, pp. 6182-6185). [7319804] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319804

Avionic technology testing by using a cognitive neurometric index : A study with professional helicopter pilots. / Borghini, Gianluca; Aricò, Pietro; Di Flumeri, Gianluca; Salinari, Serenella; Colosimo, Alfredo; Bonelli, Stefano; Napoletano, Linda; Ferreira, Ana; Babiloni, Fabio.

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS. Vol. 2015-November Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 6182-6185 7319804.

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Borghini, G, Aricò, P, Di Flumeri, G, Salinari, S, Colosimo, A, Bonelli, S, Napoletano, L, Ferreira, A & Babiloni, F 2015, Avionic technology testing by using a cognitive neurometric index: A study with professional helicopter pilots. in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS. vol. 2015-November, 7319804, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 6182-6185, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015, Milan, Italy, 8/25/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319804

Borghini G, Aricò P, Di Flumeri G, Salinari S, Colosimo A, Bonelli S et al. Avionic technology testing by using a cognitive neurometric index: A study with professional helicopter pilots. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS. Vol. 2015-November. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015. p. 6182-6185. 7319804 https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319804

Borghini, Gianluca ; Aricò, Pietro ; Di Flumeri, Gianluca ; Salinari, Serenella ; Colosimo, Alfredo ; Bonelli, Stefano ; Napoletano, Linda ; Ferreira, Ana ; Babiloni, Fabio. / Avionic technology testing by using a cognitive neurometric index : A study with professional helicopter pilots. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS. Vol. 2015-November Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. pp. 6182-6185

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