Proceedings of a Symposium on Visually Coupled Systems: Development and Application, Held at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas 8 - 9 - 10 November 1972,
Abstract
This first VCS symposium was sponsored by the Air Force System Command's Aerospace Medical Division (AMD) at Brooks AFB, Texas, and by AMD's laboratory which has promoted Air Force VCS development and application work, the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Participants and papers from DOD agencies and industry brought together the major VCS ideas as of November 1972. A visually-coupled system integrates the natural visual and motor skills of an operator with the machine he is controlling. The VCS operator visually searches for, finds, and tracks an object of interest. His line-of-sight is measured and used to aim sensors and/or weapons toward the object. Information related to his visual/motor task from sensors, weapons, or central data sources is fed back directly to his vision by special displays so as to enhance his task performance. Currently a helmet-mounted sight (HMS) is used to measure head position and line-of-sight and a helmet-mounted display (HMD) is used to feed back information to the eye. R and D efforts are underway to reduce size, weight, and increase the performance of future VCS devices. Such advanced VCS concepts as eye position sensing/control and dual field of view sensors/displays are being explored for future improved man-machine integration. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0916572
Entities
People
- Harry L. Task
- Joseph A. Birt