This paper adds data to help the development of simulator motion cueing guidelines for stall recovery training by identifying time-varying manual control behavior in a stall recovery task under different simulator motion conditions. A study was conducted with seventeen general aviation pilots in the NASA Ames Vertical Motion Simulator. Pilots had to follow a flight director through four stages of a high-altitude stall task. A time-varying identification method was used to quantify how pilot manual control parameters change throughout different stages of the task in both roll and pitch. Four motion configurations were used: no motion, generic hexapod motion, enhanced hexapod motion and full motion. Pilot performance was highest for the enhanced hexapod and full motion configurations in both roll and pitch, and the lowest without motion. In the roll axis, the pilot position gain did not significantly change throughout the stall task, but was the lowest for the condition with no motion. The pilot roll velocity gain was significantly different between motion conditions, the largest difference being found close to the stall point. The enhanced hexapod motion condition had the highest pilot roll velocity gain. In the pitch axis, the pilot position gain was significantly different between time segments but not between motion conditions. The pilot pitch velocity gain was highest for the full motion condition and increased close to the stall point, but did not change significantly for the other motion conditions. Overall, pilot control behavior under enhanced hexapod motion was most similar to that under full aircraft motion. This indicates that motion cueing for stall recovery training on hexapod simulators might be improved by using the principles behind the enhanced hexapod motion configuration.


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    Title :

    Time-Varying Manual Control Identification in a Stall Recovery Task Under Different Simulator Motion Conditions


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Aviation Forum ; 2018 ; Atlanta, GA, United States


    Publication date :

    2018-06-25


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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