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Beyond the cockpit: the visual world as a flight instrument
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Kaiser, M. K. Johnson, W. W. Foyle, D. C. |
| Copyright Year | 1992 |
| Description | The use of cockpit instruments to guide flight control is not always an option (e.g., low level rotorcraft flight). Under such circumstances the pilot must use out-the-window information for control and navigation. Thus it is important to determine the basis of visually guided flight for several reasons: (1) to guide the design and construction of the visual displays used in training simulators; (2) to allow modeling of visibility restrictions brought about by weather, cockpit constraints, or distortions introduced by sensor systems; and (3) to aid in the development of displays that augment the cockpit window scene and are compatible with the pilot's visual extraction of information from the visual scene. The authors are actively pursuing these questions. We have on-going studies using both low-cost, lower fidelity flight simulators, and state-of-the-art helicopter simulation research facilities. Research results will be presented on: (1) the important visual scene information used in altitude and speed control; (2) the utility of monocular, stereo, and hyperstereo cues for the control of flight; (3) perceptual effects due to the differences between normal unaided daylight vision, and that made available by various night vision devices (e.g., light intensifying goggles and infra-red sensor displays); and (4) the utility of advanced contact displays in which instrument information is made part of the visual scene, as on a 'scene linked' head-up display (e.g., displaying altimeter information on a virtual billboard located on the ground). |
| File Size | 650118 |
| Page Count | 5 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19950010352 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t94799j7m |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1992-05-14 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Man/system Technology And Life Support Night Vision Cues Visual Flight Navigation Cockpits Research Facilities Flight Paths Flight Instruments Altimeters Flight Control Visual Perception Amplification Goggles Head-up Displays Flight Simulators Altitude Control Training Simulators Speed Control Rotary Wing Aircraft Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
