BEARING AND RANGE ACCURACY OBTAINED BY TRACKING SIMULATED TARGETS WITH THE UNAIDED JOYSTICK -- MARKER CONTROL MECHANISM ON THE EXPERIMENTAL TARGET DESIGNATION EQUIPMENT,

Abstract

The report presents the findings of an experiment designed to appraise the accuracy with which an operator can manually track a moving target by means of an electronic marker controlled by a joystick. Conclusions: (a) The average bearing error made in operating the ETDE under a number of conditions of course, speed, range, S/N ratio, and sweep rate is 1.22 degrees. (b) The average range error under the same conditions is 0.34 miles. In addition, the operators offered the opinion that it was easier to track fast targets than slow ones. They felt that more damping was needed in the manual-control mechanism for tracking low speed targets.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1950
Accession Number
AD0644933

Entities

People

  • J. W. Gebhard

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Moving Targets
  • Targets

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Geodesy
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems