GASPAR : Aviation Management on an Aircraft Carrier Using Virtual Reality

To provide for its needs, the French Navy plans to build a second aircraft carrier. With this intention, the navy draws up a list of its functional requirements and delegates to DCNS the development of the technical specifications focusing on the fact that the ship fulfills those requirements. The principal difficulty lies in the specification of the aviation management on the aircraft carrier. In this paper, we describe GASPAR, a virtual-reality application developped in order to simulate different configurations of the future aircraft carrier and test their viability. We first introduce AR´EVI and MASCARET, the librairires upon which the application is built, then we present the application. Finally, we present some results that GASPAR has validated about the ship.