The crew-centered cockpit design (CCCD) program is developing a formal, structured process to improve the design, analysis, and testing of cockpits. Veda Incorporated is working with the CCCD Program Office to provide an enhanced and validated crew-centered system design process (CSDP) and a cockpit design system (CDS) toolset to meet this need. A key component of the toolset is a reconfigurable engineering design simulator that can be used to model cockpit display concepts quickly and easily. This simulator uses an avionics instrument development system to prototype displays that require high-resolution, high-performance, real-time graphics. This paper provides details of the development of a cockpit display application from design through integration. Using an object-oriented approach and graphical user interface, a crew system designer can rapidly model display concepts. The resulting display software can be distributed to other users, and can then be executed (with or without modifications) on a Silicon Graphics system without the need for a run-time license. This paper also describes a distributed, scalable hardware and software architecture that is being used to support the simulator. The architecture features the Unix operating system and a homogeneous computing environment of Silicon Graphics workstations that rely heavily on replicated shared memory (also known as reflective memory) and Ethernet networks.
Cockpit display prototyping for an engineering design simulator
1995-01-01
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Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Cockpit Display Prototyping for an Engineering Design Simulator
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