Field of View Effects on Pilot Performance in Flight

Covelli, Javier M.; Rolland, Jannick P.; Proctor, Michael D.; Kincaid, J. Peter; Hancock, Peter A.

doi:10.1080/10508411003617888

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“…Information provided by yellow dog on the flight deck via radio communication [ 23 ] imposes an additional load on the pilot who limits or even generally cuts off the communication with the ship’s crew in the last phase before the landing. This situation makes the reduction of horizontal and vertical FOV [ 24 ] detrimental to rotorcraft control. Therefore, several approaches have been proposed to overcome FOV-related problems such as adjustment of the pilot’s vertical seating position [ 25 ] and several other solutions (redesign of glare shield, chin window, mirror, cockpit visual enhancements, etc.)…”

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Ecological design of augmentation improves helicopter ship landing maneuvers: An approach in augmented virtuality

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Helicopter landing on a ship is a visually regulated "rendezvous" task during which pilots must use fine control to land a powerful rotorcraft on the deck of a moving ship tossed by the sea while minimizing the energy at impact. Although augmented reality assistance can be hypothesized to improve pilots’ performance and the safety of landing maneuvers by guiding action toward optimal behavior in complex and stressful situations, the question of the optimal information to be displayed to feed the pilots’ natural information-movement coupling remains to be investigated. Novice participants were instructed to land a simplified helicopter on a ship in a virtual reality simulator while minimizing energy at impact and landing duration. The wave amplitude and related ship heave were manipulated. We compared the benefits of two types of visual augmentation whose design was based on either solving cockpit-induced visual occlusion problems or strengthening the online regulation of the deceleration by keeping the current τ˙ variable around an ideal value of -0.5 to conduct smooth and efficient landing. Our results showed that the second augmentation, ecologically grounded, offers benefits at several levels of analysis. It decreases the landing duration, improves the control of the helicopter displacement, and sharpens the sensitivity to changes in τ˙. This underlines the importance for designers of augmented reality systems to collaborate with psychologists to identify the relevant perceptual-motor strategy that must be encouraged before designing an augmentation that will enhance it.

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Ecological design of augmentation improves helicopter ship landing maneuvers: An approach in augmented virtuality

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“…Avatars require a human interface comparable to the real world interface. Further, in RUAS avatar scenario expected research and training challenges of interest also include team situational awareness , field of view of individual pilot/co-pilot (Covelli et al 2010), and unique to this research, flight crew controlling slings, lifts, cranes, and scoops. The RUAS would also need to include shielding of electronics and sensors from radiation and heat.…”

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A Systems-Of-Systems Conceptual Model and Live Virtual Constructive Simulation Framework for Improved Nuclear Disaster Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Mitigation

Davis

Proctor

Shageer

2016

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

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Nuclear disasters have severe and far-reaching consequences. Emergency managers and first responders from utility owners to local, state, and federal civil authorities and the Department of Defense (DoD) must be well prepared in order to rapidly mitigate the disaster and protect the public and environment from spreading damage. Given the high risks, modeling and simulation (M&S) plays a significant role in planning and training for the spectrum of derivate scenarios. Existing reactor models are largely legacy, stove-piped designs lacking interoperability between themselves and other M&S tools for emergency preparedness system evaluation and training. Unmanned systems present a growing area of technology promising significant improvement in response and mitigation. To bridge the gap between current and future models, we propose a conceptual model (CM) for integrating live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) models with nuclear disaster and mitigation models utilizing a system-ofsystems (SoS) approach. The CM offers to synergistically enhance current reactor and dispersion simulations with intervening avatar and agent simulations. The SoS approach advances life cycle stages including concept exploration, system design, engineering, training, and mission rehearsal. Component subsystems of the CM are described along with an explanation of input/output requirements. A notional implementation is described. Finally, applications to analysis and training, an evaluation of the CM based on recently proposed criteria found in the literature, and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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“…As such, an experiment was designed to test a visual circuit flying scenario with traffic detection to replicate this. Visual circuit flying as a flying task in experiment has been done before 25 and since flying a visual pattern is a prerequisite during basic flight training, the pool of candidates as participants widens up to more obtainable numbers. Furthermore, traffic detection is a visual scanning task which has also been documented as a suitable task for amplified head-rotation applications.…”

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Visual Circuit Flying with Augmented Head-tracking on Limited Field of View Flight Training Devices

Kalawsky

Le-Ngoc

2013

AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies (MST) Conference

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• This is a conference paper. The virtual reality technique of amplified head rotations was applied to a fixed-base, low-fidelity flight simulator enabling users to fly a visual flying circuit, a task previously severely restricted by limited field of views and fixed field of regard. An exploratory experiment with nine pilots was conducted to test this technique on a fixed-base simulator across three displays: single monitor, triple monitor and triple projector. Participants started airborne downwind in a visual circuit with the primary task of completing the circuit to a full stop landing while having a secondary task of spotting popup traffic in the vicinity simulated by blimps. Data was collected to study effects on flight performance, workload and simulator sickness. The results showed that there were very few significant difference between displays, in itself remarkable considering the difference in display size and field of views. Triple monitor was found to be the best compromise delivering flight performance and traffic detection scores just below triple projector but without some peculiar track deviations during flight and a less chance of simulator sickness. With participants quickly adapting to this technique and favorable feedback, these findings demonstrated the potential value of upgrading flight training devices and to improve their utility and pave the way for future research into this domain.

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Field of View Effects on Pilot Performance in Flight

Cited by 14 publications

References 18 publications

Ecological design of augmentation improves helicopter ship landing maneuvers: An approach in augmented virtuality

Ecological design of augmentation improves helicopter ship landing maneuvers: An approach in augmented virtuality

A Systems-Of-Systems Conceptual Model and Live Virtual Constructive Simulation Framework for Improved Nuclear Disaster Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Mitigation

Visual Circuit Flying with Augmented Head-tracking on Limited Field of View Flight Training Devices

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