Title :
Mixed reality for unmanned aerial vehicle operations in near Earth environments
Author :
Hing, James T. ; Oh, Paul Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng. & Mech. (MEM), Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
To address the lack of motion feedback to a UAV pilot, a system was developed that integrates a motion simulator into UAV operations. The system is designed such that during flight, the angular rate of a UAV is captured by an onboard inertial measurement unit (IMU) and is relayed to a pilot controlling the vehicle from inside the motion simulator. Efforts to further increase pilot SA led to the development of a mixed reality chase view piloting interface. Chase view is similar to a view of being towed behind the aircraft. It combines real world onboard camera images with a virtual representation of the vehicle and the surrounding operating environment.
Keywords :
aerospace simulation; aircraft; cameras; mobile robots; telerobotics; user interfaces; virtual reality; UAV; chase view; inertial measurement unit; mixed reality; motion simulator; onboard camera image; piloting interface; unmanned aerial vehicle; virtual representation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6674-0
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2010.5649417