Integrated surveillance and control system (ISACS-1): The prototype of an advanced control room

At the OECD Halden Reactor Project in Norway, development and validation of computerized operator support system (COSS) in realistic environments have taken place for a number of years. But as advanced operator support systems are used to cover a wider spectrum of functions, the question of efficient integration of a large number of COSS into the whole control room design becomes increasingly important. The Halden Project is therefore developing a prototype of the Integrated Surveillance and Control System (ISACS). Typical questions being considered in this project are how to cope with the large amount of information available to the operator, how to design the man-machine interface to function efficiently in all operational situations, how to guide the operator in a positive manner, while still keeping him in charge of the plant control. It is hoped that these and other relevant questions will be answered in the coming years on the basis of experiments with the new control room concept as implemented in the simulator based experimental control room in the Halden Man-Machine Laboratory, HAMMLAB. 6 refs, 3 figs, 1 tab