This paper proposes a new method for a three dimensional fuzzy model of pilot's performance for guarding a territory with a short-distance between two aircraft in an air combat task with a gun. A third-order nonlinear point mass vehicle model is considered for an aircraft's flight dynamics. The desired value of the velocity, the flight path and the heading angles are obtained from some derived ...

The forward position kinematics (FPK) of a parallel manipulator with new architecture supposed to be used as a moving mechanism in a flight simulator project is discussed in this paper. The closed form solution for the FPK problem of the manipulator is first determined. It has, then, been shown that there are at most 24 solutions for FPK problem. This result has been verified by using other tec...

This paper presents the results of an experiment in which a cybernetic approach has been used to investigate the effect of motion filter setting changes and display type on simulator fidelity. Pilot control behavior, pilot remnant, open loop behavior, open loop performance and subjective evaluations in a real jet-aircraft were compared with that in a high-fidelity motion base simulator. The tas...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated whether stress training introduced during the acquisition of simulator-based flight skills enhances pilot performance during subsequent stressful flight operations in an actual aircraft. BACKGROUND Despite knowledge that preconditions to aircraft accidents can be strongly influenced by pilot stress, little is known about the effectiveness of stress training a...

Militarized versions of commercial platforms are growing in popularity due to many logistical benefits in the form of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts, established production methods, and commonality for different certifications. Commercial data and best practices are often leveraged to reduce procurement and engineering development costs. While the developmental and cost reduction benefit...

Simulator fidelity has been defined as the conformance of a flight simulator to the characteristics of the real aircraft. Objective fidelity evaluation is an engineering approach that attacks the fidelity problem with comparison of simulator and the actual system behavior over some quantitative measures. Testing can be pronounced as the fundamental mean for this comparison. From the utilization...

Managers' real life experiences will need to be supported by new learning tools, as external environments and internal dynamics of organizations become more complex. This need for simulated managerial expenence has come from a trend towards fewer hierarchical levels m organizauons. Managerial competency that was once achieved by progressing through the many layers needs to be obtamed through ot...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have widely demonstrated their utility in military applications. Different vehicle types airplanes in particular have been used for surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Civil use of UAVs, as applied to early alert, inspection and aerialimagery systems, among others, is more recent (OSD, 2005). For many of these applications, the most suitable vehicle is the helicop...

17 Flight simulators are systems composed of numerous off-the-shelf components 18 that allow pilots and maintenance crew to prepare for common and emer19 gency flight procedures for a given aircraft model. A simulator must follow 20 severe safety specifications to guarantee correct behaviour and requires an 21 extensive series of prolonged manual tests to identify bugs or safety issues. 22 In o...