Sensor data/cueing continuum for rotorcraft degraded visual environment operations

Minor, Joe; Morford, Zachariah; Harrington, W. J.

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“…Guidance systems (e.g., maneuver cue-following symbology) applied in addition to existing HUD symbology suffered from sensory overload, as the two-dimensional cues were typically added on top of the augmented outside view [9]. In this case, the outside view was distracting the pilot from the two-dimensional cue-following task.…”

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Design and Evaluation of a Constraint-Based Head-Up Display for Helicopter Obstacle Avoidance During Forward Flight

Friesen

Pavel

Borst

et al. 2020

AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum

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This paper aims to reveal the effect of different display design principles in the helicopter domain. Two different obstacle avoidance support displays are evaluated during low-altitude, forward helicopter flight: a baseline Head-Up Display (HUD) is complemented either by a conventional advisory display, or a constraint-based display inspired by Ecological Interface Design. The latter has only been sparsely applied in the helicopter domain. It is hypothesized that the advisory display reduces workload, increases situation awareness, and improves performance measures in nominal obstacle avoidance situations, while the constraint-based display increases the resilience of the pilot-vehicle system towards unexpected, off-nominal situations. Twelve helicopter pilots with varying flight experience participated in an experiment in the SIMONA Research Simulator at Delft University of Technology. Contrary to expectations, the experiment revealed no significant effects of the displays on any of the dependent measures. However, there was a trend of decreasing pilot workload and increasing situation awareness when employing any of the support displays, compared to the baseline HUD. Pilots preferred the advisory display in nominal and the constraint-based display in off-nominal situations, reproducing similar findings from research in the fixed-wing domain. The relatively short time-frame and monotony of the control-task, an already cue-rich baseline HUD condition, and similarity between the displays possibly prohibited revealing larger differences between conditions. Future research will analyze the obstacle avoidance trajectories of this experiment, possibly revealing changes in control strategy caused by the displays, even when the lumped performance measures are similar. A follow-up experiment will focus on a longer task time-frame, more variable situations, and a truly ecological display to investigate the effect of applying Ecological Interface Design and different automation systems in the helicopter domain.

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“…To relate this paper's displays to other helicopter display types, a diagram to categorize helicopter display systems of Minor et al is reproduced in Table 1 [9]. Firstly, they distinguish between helmet mounted (head-up) displays and panel mounted (head-down) displays.…”

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Design and Evaluation of a Constraint-Based Head-Up Display for Helicopter Obstacle Avoidance During Forward Flight

Friesen

Pavel

Borst

et al. 2020

AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum

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“…To relate this paper's displays to other helicopter display types, a diagram to categorize helicopter display systems of Minor et al is reproduced in Table 2 [8]. Firstly, they distinguish between helmet mounted (head-up) displays and panel mounted (head-down) displays.…”

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“…Head-Up Display (HUD) technology has been applied successfully to improve the UCE-level by supplying the pilot with an additional perspective overlay based on data recorded by on-board sensor suites and/or offline maps [5][6][7]. When developing novel automation systems, there are drawbacks to consider: guidance systems (e.g., maneuver cue-following symbology) applied in addition to existing HUD symbology suffered from sensory overload, as the two-dimensional cues were typically added on top of the augmented outside view [8]. In this case, the outside view was distracting the pilot from the two-dimensional cue-following task.…”

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Design and Evaluation of a Constraint-Based Head-Up Display for Helicopter Obstacle Avoidance

Friesen

Borst

Pavel

et al. 2021

Journal of Aerospace Information Systems

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This paper investigates the effect of employing different display design principles for humanmachine interaction in helicopters. Two obstacle avoidance support displays are evaluated during low-altitude, forward flight. A baseline Head-Up Display is complemented either by a conventional advisory display, or a constraint-based display inspired by Ecological Interface Design. The latter design philosophy has only been sparsely applied in the helicopter domain. Twelve helicopter pilots participated in an experiment in a research flight simulator. We found no significant effects of the displays on objective performance measures. However, there was a trend of decreasing pilot workload and increasing situation awareness when employing the support displays, compared to the baseline display. The constraint-based display had the largest positive effect, and increased the resilience of the pilot-vehicle system towards unexpected events,

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User Centered Design Strategies for Improving Visualization of Sensor Data in Rotorcraft Cockpit Displays for Degraded Visual Environment Operations

Davis

Dickerson

Gillmore

2019

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Sensor data/cueing continuum for rotorcraft degraded visual environment operations

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Design and Evaluation of a Constraint-Based Head-Up Display for Helicopter Obstacle Avoidance During Forward Flight

Design and Evaluation of a Constraint-Based Head-Up Display for Helicopter Obstacle Avoidance During Forward Flight

Design and Evaluation of a Constraint-Based Head-Up Display for Helicopter Obstacle Avoidance

User Centered Design Strategies for Improving Visualization of Sensor Data in Rotorcraft Cockpit Displays for Degraded Visual Environment Operations

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