Using synthetic vision technology and automation to provide UAV operator support

Avionics: The main contributor to innovation in aviation

Avionics refers to Electronic systems used in Aviation, and the word itself is a blend of Aviation and Electronics. Avionics are not only essential for today’s commercial and military aircraft to fly, but also enable their integration into the overall traffic management system. For safety critical applications such as navigation, aviation...

Beyond traffic depiction: Conformally integrating the conflict space to support level 3 situation awareness

The research described in this paper explores the addition of conformally integrated traffic probes into an egocentric Synthetic Vision (SV) Primary Flight Display (PFD). The underlying thought is that, although the traffic that is predicted to cause a future loss of separation may not lie within the field of view of the display, the location...

Exploring the potential of energy and terrain awareness information in a Synthetic Vision display for UAV control

This paper addresses the design and implementation of a conceptual Enhanced/Synthetic Vision Primary Flight Display format. The goal of this work is to explore the means to provide the operator of a UAV with an integrated view of the constraints for the velocity vector, resulting in an explicit depiction of the margins/boundaries of the multi...

Design of a synthetic vsion overlay for UAV autoland monitoring

For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), autonomous forms of autoland are being pursued that do not depend on special, deployability restraining, ground-based equipment for the generation of the reference path to the runway. Typically, these forms of autoland use runway location data from an onboard database to generate the reference path to the...

Using perspective guidance overlay to improve UAV manual control performance

The guidance information that is available to the UAV operator typically suffers from limitations of data update rate and system latency. Even when using a flight director command display, the manual control task is considerably more difficult compared to piloting a manned aircraft. Results from earlier research into perspective guidance...

Synthetic vision to augment sensor based vision for remotely piloted vehicles

In the past fifteen years, several research programs have demonstrated potential advantages of synthetic vision technology for manned aviation. More recently, some research programs have focused on integrating synthetic vision technology into control stations for remotely controlled aircraft. The contribution of synthetic vision can be divided...

Integration of information in synthetic vision displays: Why, to what extent, and how?

Synthetic vision: A prototype display concept for commercial aircraft

Integrated design of a man-machine interface for 4-D navigation

Pilot-in-the-loop studies into manual control strategies with perspective flightpath displays

Integrated design of a pilot vehicle interface for 4-D guidance and navigation: From concept to in-flight demonstration