Current and future helmet-mounted displays for piloted systems

The ability to lock on targets as quickly and easily as possible while maintaining speed and a tactically advantageous position is crucial to success in air combat. The capability of remote eye tracking systems has recently improved significantly and has opened up new possible applications. A modern eye-tracker was integrated in an advanced flight simulator environment and an experiment was conducted. The independent variable was target designation mode that was varied between: Heads-Up Display (HUD), Helmet Mounted Display (HMD) and a solution based on eye tracking. Eleven participants flew in the experiment and mean times to designate targets indicate significant advantages for the eye tracking based solution.

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“…the IHADSS system) for at least two decades. See Franck et al (2009) for an overview of current and future helmet mounted displays.…”

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Eye Tracking-Based Target Designation in Simulated Close Range Air Combat

O’Connell

Castor

Pousette³

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Review and analysis of avionic helmet-mounted displays

Zhang

Shi

et al. 2013

Opt. Eng

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With the development of new concepts and principles over the past century, helmet-mounted displays (HMDs) have been widely applied. This paper presents a review of avionic HMDs and shows some areas of active and intensive research. This review is focused on the optical design aspects and is divided into three sections to explore new optical design methods, which include an off-axis design, design with freeform optical surface, and design with holographic optical waveguide technology. Building on the fundamentals of optical design and engineering, the principles section primarily expounds on the five optical system parameters, which include weight, field of view, modulation transfer function, exit pupil size, and eye relief. We summarized the previous design works using new components to achieve compact and lightweight HMDs. Moreover, the paper presents a partial summary of the more notable experimental, prototype, fielded, and future HMD fixed-wing and rotary-wing programs. © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI.

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Current and future helmet-mounted displays for piloted systems

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Eye Tracking-Based Target Designation in Simulated Close Range Air Combat

Eye Tracking-Based Target Designation in Simulated Close Range Air Combat

Review and analysis of avionic helmet-mounted displays

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