NWC Advanced Visual Target Acquisition Hardware Design.

Abstract

The Advanced Visual Target Acquisition System (AVTAS) has been developed by the Naval Weapons Center to enable the Agile weapon system to rapidly acquire an airborne target at large off-boresight angles. The pilot's task is to simply establish a good sight picture of a target and line up on that target an optical sight which is rigidly attached to the pilot's helmet. The AVTAS, which is a helmet tracker, ultimately computes the digital direction cosines in aircraft coordination of the pilot's line of sight. These direction cosines are used to drive the Agile seeker system to rapid target acquisition. AVTAS is an electro-optical system that uses no moving parts, is lightweight, does not restrict the pilot's movement or vision, has a wide field of view, and can be flown in high performance fighter aircraft. AVTAS has been designed for use in both laboratory and flight test programs to evaluate the operational characteristics of the system. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA065920

Entities

People

  • Neil R. Krenzel

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Panels
  • Detectors
  • Diagrams
  • Digital Circuits
  • Electronic Circuits
  • Indicators
  • Logic Gates
  • Power Supplies
  • Printed Circuits
  • Target Acquisition
  • Visual Targets

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.