Title
FlyTact: A tactile display improves a helicopter pilot's landing performance in degraded visual environments
Author
Jansen, C.
Wennemers, A.S.
Vos, W.K.
Groen, E.L.
TNO Defensie en Veiligheid
DenV
Publication year
2008
Abstract
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. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Subject
helicopter control
tactile display
Display devices
Helicopters
Landing
Sensor networks
Accurate
Display technologies
Flight trials
helicopter control
Helicopter motions
Mental efforts
Rotary wings
Royal netherlands air forces
tactile display
Tactile displays
Test pilots
Visual environments
Mice (computer peripherals)
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69057-3_109
TNO identifier
241070
ISBN
3540690565
ISSN
0302-9743
Source
6th International Conference on Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios, EuroHaptics 2008, 10 June 2008 through 13 June 2008, Madrid, Conference code: 73947, 5024 LNCS, 867-875
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Document type
conference paper