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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Flight Simulation"”.
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Comparing Training Effects of Virtual Reality Flight Simulation to Conventional PC-Based Flight Simulation
… utilizing Virtual Reality (VR) technologies for flight training by comparing the training results when using conventional desktop flight simulation versus VR flight simulation. Additionally, this project examined the user experience of VR flight simulation and how users’ motivation and …
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Simulating Apollo: Flight Simulation Technology 1945-1975
This dissertation examines how flight simulation technology rapidly evolved in the post-World War II period, enabling new regimes of aircraft and missile flight, and eventually becoming “the very heart and soul of the NASA system” during the Apollo program. At the intersection of automatic control …
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Aviation Instruction Through Flight Simulation and Related Learning
Implications of the findings are discussed in terms of task analyses, curriculum development, equipment, and instructional resources and training.
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Social Facilitation and Test Anxiety in Flight Simulation Training
… of an individual during the early stages of flight simulation training. While trends indicated that a stronger performance was achieved by test participants in the no audience, low test anxiety and simple task groups, results revealed that only task complexity had a direct relationship with …
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Flight simulation and hardware implementation of deep model predictive control
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Satellite Data Communications Link Requirements for a Proposed Flight Simulation System
… Aeronautical University (ERAU) and other flight training facilities. The proposed research was conducted following a descriptive method of collecting information, generating and analyzing data, and listing the results for the proposed link requirements. The current fiber-optic …
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Multi-agent flight simulation with robust situation generation dc by Eric N. Johnson.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1995.
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A method for determining and reducing transport delays in the flight simulation environment
… several points in the signal path for piloted flight simulators. Measurements were made in both the frequency and time domain. A new method for collecting data from video transitions was designed and tested. The accuracy and ease of use of the new method was compared to the previous data …
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Spatial Cognition Differences between Men and Women in Spatial Cue Environments during Flight Simulation
… the effects of sex and spatial cue level on the flight performance of pilots conducting simulated ground reference maneuvers. Twenty pilots flew two maneuvers in a flight simulator to determine the effects of sex and spatial cue level (low vs. high) on performance as measured by examining …
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Formalization of flight mechanical CS-25 requirements for assessments using flight simulation in preliminary aircraft design
… design departments to create high-fidelity flight simulation models integrated with flight control systems. These models are then used to simulate flight tasks, assessing the impact of design decisions on the aircraft's flight mechanics, and ensuring compliance with the certification …
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Development and validation of an Electromagnetic Formation Flight simulation as a platform for control algorithm design
Electromagnetic Formation Flight (EMFF) consists of using electromagnetic forces to position or orient satellites in a relative target location or attitude and achieve a certain target formation on orbit. This thesis introduces the fundamental equations of EMFF and the design of the Resonant …
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Active Noise Reduction Versus Passive Designs in Communication Headsets: Speech Intelligibility and Pilot Performance Effects in an Instrument Flight Simulation
… pilot participants flew through different flight tasks of varying levels and types of workload embedded in four 3.5 hour flight scenarios while wearing four different headsets. The 3.5 hours were considered long duration due the instrument conditions, severe weather conditions, difficult …
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Congested Airspace Routing Analysis of Commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems
… analysis of several routing options utilizing flight simulation technology and logical analysis. Commercial unmanned aircraft systems will require a discrete set of operating rules and will need a substantial sector of the national airspace in which to operate. UAS operations that include …
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Control Law Design and Validation for a Helicopter In-Flight Simulator
In-flight simulation allows one aircraft to simulate the dynamic response of another aircraft. A control system designed to give RASCAL, a JUH-60A Black Hawk helicopter based at Moffett Field, CA, in-flight simulation capabilities has been designed, optimized and validated in this research. A …
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Hidden Markov Models for analysis of pilot instrument scanning and attention switching
(cont.) high workload. The results of another flight simulation experiment demonstrated how the pilots' attention budgeting among these tasks estimated by HMM analysis, combined with the pilots' eye-movement statistical results, could enhance a cockpit display format study. The experiments …
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Effect of Joystick Versus Control Yoke Use on Personal Computer (PC) Flight Training: A Comparative Analysis
… Both devices were used in support of the same PC flight simulation software program, and were evaluated using the experimental research method. Objective and subjective data were obtained during controlled testing, and subsequently analyzed using basic summation and t-test methods. The results …
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Increasing capacity by the use of optimal runway exits, automated landing, roll out and turnoff in an airport environment
… Cockpit Airfield Display Formats, Real Time Flight Simulation and Field Testing, and a Braking Guidance Policy. It is suggested that future testing and a review of the Model be done.
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General Aviation Aircraft: A Comparative Analysis of Analog Instrument Display and Conceptual Primary Flight Display
… that analog instrument display versus primary flight display (PFD) had on pilot performance. Pilot performance was evaluated by: (a) time, and (b) number of errors. There were twenty subjects with a minimum of a private pilot license selected from the Aeronautical Science department at …
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Information fusion schemes for real time risk assessment in adaptive control systems
Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) deploys a neural network for in-flight aircraft failure accommodation. Verification and validation (V&V) of adaptive systems is a challenging research problem. Our approach to V&V relies on real-time monitoring of neural network learning. Monitors detect …
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