Motion effects on an IFR hovering task :
analytical predictions and experimental results /
R.F. Ringland, R.L. Stapleford, and R.E. Magdaleno.
Description
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English
- Published
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Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; 1971.
- Summary
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An analytical pilot model incorporating the effects of motion cues and display scanning and sampling is tested by comparing predictions against experimental results on a moving base simulator. The simulated task is that of precision hovering of a VTOL having varying amounts of rate damping, and using separated instrument displays. Motion cue effects are investigated by running the experiment under fixed and moving base conditions, the latter in two modes; full motion, and angular motion only. Display scanning behavior is measured on some of the runs. The results of the program show that performance is best with angular motion only, most probably because a g-vector tilt cue is available to the pilot in this motion condition. This provides an attitude indication even when not visually fixating the attitude display. Vestibular threshold effects are also present in the results because of the display scaling used to permit hovering position control within the motion simulator limits; no washouts are used in the simulator drive signals. The IFR nature of the task results in large decrements in pilot opinion and performance relative to VFR conditions because of the scanning workload. Measurements of scanning behavior are sensitive to motion conditions and show more attention to attitude control under fixed base conditions.
- Note
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"NASA CR-1933."
"November 1971."
Cover title.
Also available via Internet from the NASA Technical Reports Server (http://ntrs.nasa.gov/). Address as of 6/21/06: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720007349%5f1972007349.pdf.
- Physical Description
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xv, 118 p. :
ill. ;
27 cm.
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