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Design and Testing of an Unlimited Field-of-regard Synthetic Vision Head-worn Display for Commercial Aircraft Surface OperationsExperiments and flight tests have shown that a Head-Up Display (HUD) and a head-down, electronic moving map (EMM) can be enhanced with Synthetic Vision for airport surface operations. While great success in ground operations was demonstrated with a HUD, the research noted that two major HUD limitations during ground operations were their monochrome form and limited, fixed field of regard. A potential solution to these limitations found with HUDs may be emerging Head Worn Displays (HWDs). HWDs are small, lightweight full color display devices that may be worn without significant encumbrance to the user. By coupling the HWD with a head tracker, unlimited field-of-regard may be realized for commercial aviation applications. In the proposed paper, the results of two ground simulation experiments conducted at NASA Langley are summarized. The experiments evaluated the efficacy of head-worn display applications of Synthetic Vision and Enhanced Vision technology to enhance transport aircraft surface operations. The two studies tested a combined six display concepts: (1) paper charts with existing cockpit displays, (2) baseline consisting of existing cockpit displays including a Class III electronic flight bag display of the airport surface; (3) an advanced baseline that also included displayed traffic and routing information, (4) a modified version of a HUD and EMM display demonstrated in previous research; (5) an unlimited field-of-regard, full color, head-tracked HWD with a conformal 3-D synthetic vision surface view; and (6) a fully integrated HWD concept. The fully integrated HWD concept is a head-tracked, color, unlimited field-of-regard concept that provides a 3-D conformal synthetic view of the airport surface integrated with advanced taxi route clearance, taxi precision guidance, and data-link capability. The results of the experiments showed that the fully integrated HWD provided greater path performance compared to using paper charts alone. Further, when comparing the HWD with the HUD concept, there were no differences in path performance. In addition, the HWD and HUD concepts were rated via paired-comparisons the same in terms of situational awareness and workload. However, there were over twice as many taxi incursion events with the HUD than the HWD.
Document ID
20070018771
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Arthur, Jarvis J., III (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Prinzel, Lawrence J., III (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Shelton, Kevin J. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Kramer, Lynda J. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Williams, Steven P. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Bailey, Randall E. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Norman, Robert M. (Boeing Phantom Works Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
April 9, 2007
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Report/Patent Number
SPIE 6559-12
LAR-17290-1
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium 2007
Location: Orlando, FL
Country: United States
Start Date: April 9, 2007
End Date: April 13, 2007
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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