Unfavourable Aircraft/Rotorcraft Pilot Couplings (A/RPCs), usually called pilot induced oscillations (PIO), manifested themselves since the early days of manned flight and may still create problems in modern configurations. In Europe, the ARISTOTEL project (Aircraft and Rotorcraft Pilot Couplings – Tools and Techniques for Alleviation and Detection) was set up with the aim of understanding and ...

This paper investigates robust motion pilot control of a coaxial two-wheeled electric vehicle (CTWEV) where the feedback control system is solely based on the angle of inclination without using any velocity information. H∞ control is employed to design a robust stabilizing controller. The proposed scheme involves an electronic differential steering algorithm to pilot the CTWEV via a joystick. F...

In-vehicle touchscreens provide many modern conveniences. However, touchscreen use also increases crash risk. A new type of in-vehicle gesture system is needed to improve driving safety while maintaining infotainment functionality drivers have come to expect. We propose an in-vehicle sonically enhanced gesture control interface. Relevant literature is introduced and results from a pilot study a...

Previous investigations using flight testing and simulator studies have identified influence of vehicle flight speed and control system sensitivity on the bandwidth-phase delay criterion, not accounted for in the proposed new handling qualities criteria for rotorcraft (ADS-33C). In this paper, the impact of flight speed and control system sensitivity on handling qualities as depicted by the ban...

A real-time visual mosaicking and navigation system for use near the sea floor has been developed and deployed as a pilot aid on MBARI ROVs. This system provides high-precision, environment-relative vehicle positioning and control without the use of external positioning arrays. The system uses a live video feed from a camera on the ROV combined with velocity data from an acoustic Doppler veloci...

This paper concerns about the human pilot or remote control system in UAV navigation. Demands for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) are increasing tremendously in aviation industry and research area. UAV is a flying machine that can fly with no pilot onboard and can be controlled by ground-based operators. In this paper, a comparison was made between different proposed remote control systems and de...

Wireless communication technologies are expected to be widely employed in the near future in Intelligent Transport System applications. The important innovations in wireless and digital electronics will support many applications in the areas of safety, environmental and emissions control, driving assistance, diagnostics and maintenance in the transport domain. It is evident that wireless commun...

| This paper deals with the problem of planning and controlling the motion of a car like vehicle moving in a dynamic and roadway like environment. The contribution presented here is a motion controller which executes in a reactive way a given nominal motion plan. Such a plan is made up of a smooth trajectory C and of time constraints of the type \reach location l at time t l ". Data concerning ...

Delays between user input and the system’s reaction in control tasks have been shown to have a detrimental effect on performance. This is often accompanied by increases in self-reported workload. In the current work, we sought to identify physiological measures that correlate with pilot workload in a conceptual aerial vehicle that suffered from varying time delays between control input and vehi...

This paper describes an effort under way to develop pilot/vehicle interface (PVI) concepts that use computational situation assessment models and pilot workload metrics to drive the content, format, and modality of cockpit displays. The goal of this research is to develop PVI concepts that support a tactical pilot’s situation awareness and decision-making. The envisioned system is driven by two...