DocumentCode :
2901146
Title :
Research in a high-fidelity acceleration environment [tactical aircraft]
Author :
Cammarota, Joseph P.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Human Factors & Protective Syst., US Naval Air Dev. Center, Warminster, PA, USA
fYear :
1989
fDate :
22-26 May 1989
Firstpage :
778
Abstract :
The lightweight cockpit (LWC) installed in the human centrifuge at NADC, one approach to creating an acceleration environment similar to that of tactical aircraft, is described. This centrifuge is capable of very high onset and sustained accelerations. A pilot in the human centrifuge flies an aircraft simulation to maintain a target aircraft inside the gun pipper of a head-up display. The pilot is in complete control of the centrifuge through the simulation, and if the target tracking is accomplished successfully, the centrifuge will produce an acceleration profile that matches the target aircraft. The LWC starts with an enhanced aircraft simulation with a performance envelope that exceeds that of current inventory aircraft. The centrifuge is equipped with the flight controls necessary to fly the simulation in an air combat scenario. The display system is a high-resolution wide-field-of-view computer graphics system that is used to present a real-world gaming area, an aerial target aircraft, and a high-fidelity head-up display. The aerial target flies profiles that are either actual engagements recorded from air combat maneuvering ranges or flights recorded using the enhanced aircraft model simulation
Keywords :
aerospace computing; aerospace simulation; aircraft; military systems; zero gravity experiments; NADC; acceleration profile; aerial target flies profiles; air combat; aircraft model simulation; display; enhanced aircraft simulation; flight controls; gun pipper; head-up display; high-fidelity acceleration environment; high-resolution wide-field-of-view computer graphics; human centrifuge; lightweight cockpit; military systems; tactical aircraft; target tracking; Acceleration; Aerospace control; Aerospace simulation; Computational modeling; Computer displays; History; Human factors; Life estimation; Military aircraft; Protection;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1989. NAECON 1989., Proceedings of the IEEE 1989 National
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NAECON.1989.40300
Filename :
40300
Link To Document :
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