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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37129/2313-7509.2024.21.196-208

INTEGRAL-ERGATIC ASPECT OF EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A GROUND ROBOTIC COMPLEX IN LOGISTICS OPERATIONS

Abstract

The potential efficiency of a ground robotic complex (GRC) to functionally perform tasks in military logistics transportation operations is investigated in terms of a purposeful hierarchical-complex ergatic system (ergasystem) with an emergence feature. The ergosystem is described by the reference model of interaction of the basic components: "mobile GRC - operating environment - anthropogenic association of logistics operations". The methodological basis of the research was chosen to be the integral ergatic aspect arising from the theoretical-experimental method with the quintessence of construction and the simultaneous existence of a set of theoretical models of the transportation operation. The effectiveness of the operation is determined in relation to the resource flows of the logistics process: the result of the task, the mode of operation of the mobile multifunctional robotic platforms, and the way of managing the structures of the GRC. In the context of the integral ergatic approach, the article analyzes the factors that determine the potential efficiency of a transportation operation, empirically establishes hierarchical levels of quality of a logistics operation, introduces a vector indicator of potential efficiency, and states local indicators of operational, technical, operational, economic and resource efficiency that cannot be summarized into a generalized indicator. It is proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of the operation in an integrated manner, based on the technical indicators of the structures of the GRC, on the operational and intellectual capabilities of the active components of the ergosystem. It was decided to evaluate the efficiency of mobile structures of the GRC in logistics operations according to the concept of "ideal" and "real" operators, taking into account the level of human influence on the targeted support of the operation. Variants of formalization of the integration process are presented. It is shown that the objectification of the procedure for qualimetry of the GRC operator’s training creates conditions for improving the means and methods of the user interface, as well as for modernizing the strategy of military professional training of a specialist in the field of military robotics.

Keywords: ground robotic complex, operator, multipurpose robotic platform, remote control system, integrated approach, performance indicators, evaluation model.

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The article was submitted  04.04.2024.

V. Chepkii, V. Skachkov, O. Yefymchykov, V. Nabok, V. Tsukanov ©
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