Coalition Warfare Program Tactile Situation Awareness System for Aviation Applications: Simulator Flight Test

Abstract

The Tactile Situational Awareness System (TSAS) is designed to provide hover feedback via the sense of touch, permitting helicopter pilots to maintain aircraft control within degraded visual environment (DVE). In Part 1 of our effort (reported in Lawson and Rupert, 2014), several improvements were made to the TSAS. In Part 2 of the effort (discussed in the present report), the improved TSAS was evaluated during simulated flight testing. The test evaluated the ability of the TSAS to improve a pilots hover stability in a simulated DVE or brownout condition. The TSAS was integrated into a UH-60 simulator successfully and a trend towards smaller mean hover deviation was observed among 10 pilots while TSAS was in use. Further testing is recommended.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1002955

Entities

People

  • Angus Rupert
  • Ben Lawson
  • David Myers
  • Justin Dailey
  • Timothy Gowen

Organizations

  • United States Army Aeromedical Research Lab

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Army Aviation
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Data Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Information Science
  • Naval Aviation
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Simulators
  • Situational Awareness
  • Small Business
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Xml

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  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.