FlyTact: a tactile display improves a helicopter pilot's landing performance in degraded visual environments
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Helicopter landings are more challenging in brownout conditions, in which sand and dust is stirred up by the rotary wing aircraft, obscuring visibility.
Safe brownout landings require new sensor and display technologies to provide the pilot with information on helicopter motion. In this respect tactile displays are promising: The pilot can maintain visual references as much as possible while feeling the crucial helicopter speed and altitude information. The Royal Netherlands Air Force and TNO developed a tactile display to provide the helicopter pilot with information on groundspeed and altitude during landings in degraded visual environments like brownouts. The tactile display was tested in flight trials with a Cougar helicopter. The test pilot performed brownout-like landing manoeuvres faster, more accurate, better controlled, and with less mental effort when altitude and/or groundspeed information was presented on the tactile display.
Keywords: tactile display, helicopter control.
Safe brownout landings require new sensor and display technologies to provide the pilot with information on helicopter motion. In this respect tactile displays are promising: The pilot can maintain visual references as much as possible while feeling the crucial helicopter speed and altitude information. The Royal Netherlands Air Force and TNO developed a tactile display to provide the helicopter pilot with information on groundspeed and altitude during landings in degraded visual environments like brownouts. The tactile display was tested in flight trials with a Cougar helicopter. The test pilot performed brownout-like landing manoeuvres faster, more accurate, better controlled, and with less mental effort when altitude and/or groundspeed information was presented on the tactile display.
Keywords: tactile display, helicopter control.
We onderzochten in een veldexperiment de effectiviteit van een tactiele display. Wanneer een helicoptervlieger hoogte- en snelheidsinformatie tactiel krijgt aangeboden, kan hij veiliger, sneller en nauwkeuriger landen in slecht-zicht condities
TNO Identifier
22026
Source title
In M. Ferre (Ed.). Eurohaptics 2008. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Pages
867 - 875
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