This paper describes the measuring of pilot response time to a sudden change in a controlled parameter whilst flying an aircraft. The authors of this paper created an analytical model of human behavior from the basic data of an automated regulation. The measurements have been done on a Cessna 152 simulator at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. The tested pilots were pilot students with ...

Problem: · Control object has continuous (real) control parameters · Tests are the examples of proper control · Given a set of N tests (N ≈ 20–30), an FSM should be constructed with behavior close to the tests · Aircraft model is used as a control object · Tests can be written manually in a flight simulator · in[i][t][k] – inputs (flight parameter values) · out[i][t][j] – outputs (control param...

The main goal of this research is to investigate minimum fuel descent trajectories for various types of aircraft and consider appropriate arrival sequencing based on the acquired results. First, the validity of a point mass model to find optimized descent trajectories in order to obtain minimal fuel consumption is confirmed. Through single aircraft numerical simulations, the principle “higher f...

The simulation of various natural phenomena is one of the important research fields in computer graphics. In particular, aspects such as sky, clouds, water, fire, trees, smoke, terrains, desert scenes, snow and fog are indispensable for creating realistic images of natural scenes, flight simulators and so on. Therefore, a lot of researchers have been trying to develop methods for simulating and...

Virtual Reality (VR) has now emerged as a promising tool in many domains of therapy and rehabilitation (Rizzo, Schultheis, Kerns & Mateer, in press; Weiss & Jessel, 1998; Zimand, Anderson, Gershon, Graap, Hodges, & Rothbaum, 2002). Continuing advances in VR technology along with concomitant system cost reductions have supported the development of more usable, useful, and accessible VR systems t...

This paper discusses the design and implementation of a series of system-wide simulation upgrades made to the Vehicle Systems and Control Laboratory in the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. The simulation system consists of a PCbased distributed simulation network comprised of a fixed-base full cockpit simulator and three additional pilot-based simulation stations. Modif...

Surgical simulators have been developed especially in the past few years for enhancing the training of physicians, reducing the number of animals and cadavers, flexibility of training scenarios and for preoperative planning. Despite their potential benefits, and the fact that they have precedence in flight simulators, there are very few simulators in current use. This is primarily due to the la...

Aeronautics procedures are used as prescribed action lists to help human operators remember and follow mandatory steps that guarantee safety, workload and performance criteria. A study of the use of procedures in the civil aviation domain surveyed 207 pilots using four investigation methods, including the observation of 140 hours of full-flight simulator. The results of this study are used to a...

Feedback in surgical simulation has been limited to offline analysis of movement, time taken to complete simulation and in some cases a virtual playback of completed simulation tasks. In comparison to aircraft simulation, these feedback schemes are very rudimentary. Research in military simulations has shown that real time feedback significantly improves performance on the task at hand and lead...