Predicting performance in manually controlled rendezvous and docking through spatial abilities |
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| Authors: | Chunhui Wang Yu Tian Shanguang Chen Zhiqiang Tian Ting Jiang Feng Du |
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| Institution: | 1. National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering, China Astronaut Research and Training Center, Beijing 100094, China;2. Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China |
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| Abstract: | Manually controlled rendezvous and docking (manual RVD) is a challenging space task for astronauts. This study aims to identify spatial abilities that are critical for accomplishing manual RVD. Based on task analysis, spatial abilities were deduced to be critical for accomplishing manual RVD. 15 Male participants performed manual RVD task simulations and spatial ability tests (the object-manipulation spatial ability and spatial orientation ability). Participants’ performance in the test of visualization of viewpoints (which measures the spatial orientation ability) was found to be significantly correlated with their manual RVD performance, indicating that the spatial orientation ability in the sense of perspective taking is particularly important for accomplishing manual RVD. |
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| Keywords: | Manually controlled rendezvous and docking Spatial ability Object-manipulation Spatial orientation Perspective taking |
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