The use of automated training systems makes it possible to regularly use the training material in order to deepen knowledge, repeat the material learned, improve the equipment operation skills and competencies. Increasing the duration of training (tоб), on the one hand, increases the reliability of acquired knowledge, skills and abilities, and on the other – leads to an increase in training costs.
It is obvious that some optimum duration of training exists, which is defined by the acceptable level of costs, the effectiveness of acquired knowledge, the intensity of skills increase, the general psychophysiological state of a specialist, etc.
The solution to this problem will be considered for two classes of control systems, which the trained specialists are to operate in the future after graduation. The first class will include systems for which we know the level of losses associated with the specialist’s error. The second class will include systems for which operation errors do not have a direct analytical relationship with the costs of material resources. This type of system can include, for example, systems (and hence occupations) for military purposes, air transport management, management of complex processes, etc., for which an occurrence of a mistake may lead to unpredictable consequences.
For these two types of occupations, the rational threshold of allowable training duration has different meanings. Therefore, this solution to the problem will be different for different types of future activities of specialists. Let us look at them in more detail.
In line with the above, the losses associated with the specialist’s error in future professional activities of this type are directly proportional to the number of mistakes resulting from a lack of knowledge, skills and abilities in the study of a particular course (or a course system).
Then, taking into account the exponential nature of each operator’s professional knowledge improvement, the reduced loss function of its intended professional aW (tоб) = NPои(t1)Cои℮–α(1)t об +