Education and demonstration – Vehicle operator instruction or testing – Flight vehicle
Patent
1993-04-23
1995-02-14
Apley, Richard J.
Education and demonstration
Vehicle operator instruction or testing
Flight vehicle
434 43, 434307R, 434372, 364578, 395152, 345 8, G09B 908, G09B 1916
Patent
active
053889908
ABSTRACT:
A virtual reality flight control system displays to the pilot the image of a scene surrounding a vehicle or pod having six degrees of freedom of acceleration or velocity control by the pilot and traveling through inertial space, the image itself including a superimposed figure providing the pilot an instant reference of orientation consisting of superimposed sets of geometric figures whose relative orientations provide the pilot an instantaneous feel or sense of orientation changes with respect to some fixed coordinate system. They include a first set of geometric figures whose orientations are fixed to the pilot's vehicle and a second set of geometric figures whose orientations are fixed with respect to a fixed or interstellar coordinate system. The first set of figures is a first set of orthogonal great circles about the three orthogonal axes of the flight vehicle or pod and centered at and surrounding the pilot's head, while the second set of figures is a second set of orthogonal great circles about the three orthogonal axes of a fixed or interstellar coordinate system, also centered at and surrounding the pilot's head.
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Apley Richard J.
Cheng Joe H.
Jones Thomas H.
Kusmiss John H.
Miller Guy M.
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