While the Spatial Disorientation (SD) has long been recognized as an important causal factor in aviation incidents and accidents, it is only beginning to be recognized as a factor in Uninhabited Aerial Systems (UASs). As a first step towards better understanding the effects of control platform motion on manual UAV control Olson, DeLauer and Fale (2006) had 10 rated Air Force pilots fly a simulated UAV task (MS Flight Simulator) from a motion capable control platform (aircraft simulator). Participants performed two basic flight tasks - a vertical task (climb/descent) and a horizontal (turning task). The control platform motion was varied to provide either congruent, neutral, or conflicting motion cues. The current study replicates the simulator study using an Cessna-172 aircraft as the control platform. This will allow for a more complete examination of platform motion cues since simulators cannot adequately simulate sustained motion. This study also adds a landing task to examine glide path and azimuth error. The results of this study mirror those of the previous simulator study and show a general increase in error. These results have implications for planned UAV operations from both fighter and transport aircraft.


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    Title :

    Operating an Unmanned Aerial System from a Moving Platform


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    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    17 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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