Education and demonstration – Vehicle operator instruction or testing – Flight vehicle
Patent
1997-09-12
1999-12-14
Hafer, Robert A.
Education and demonstration
Vehicle operator instruction or testing
Flight vehicle
434 35, 434 38, 434 43, 434 45, G09B 908
Patent
active
06000942&
ABSTRACT:
The experience of parachute flight is simulated including parachute release and malfunctions. The parachutist trainee is suspended in a harness and a control line provided for the parachutist to operate. The parachutist's actions are sensed by an action sensor actuated by the control line. Force and position sensors sense position and force factors effected by the parachutist. The parachutist's head motion can be tracked by a head mounted sensor. The outputs of the sensors are converted to digital signals which are fed to a computer. The computer is programmed with a mathematical and logical model of parachute dynamics and environmental factors. The computational results are displayed to the parachutist on a monitor or on a head mounted display, the scene viewed containing a variety of three dimensional representations of objects on the ground such as buildings vegetation roads, etc. The responses of the parachutist and computed motions of the parachutist are scored continually for activity level and accuracy. The run ends when collision logic detects intersection with other simulated objects, e.g. when the parachutist touches ground in the simulation.
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Anderson Fritz G.
Danta Randal
Debiasio Frank C.
Hogue Jeffrey R.
Pelz Cecy A.
Hafer Robert A.
Rovnak John Edmund
Sokolski Edward A.
Systems Technology, Inc.
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