A Landing Task Investigation Involving Haptics in a Cave Environment

An experiment was conducted in which subjects had to land a simulated F-16 aircraft using a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) facility, a three-dimensional virtual environment room consisting of multiple mirrors, 3-D video- projected displays in a highly stressful environment. This performan...

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Main Authors: Repperger, Daniel W, Gilkey, R H, Green, R, LaFleur, Tobias C, Haas, Michael W
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Aircraft
CAVE(CAVE AUTOMATIC VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT)
Computer Hardware
CONTROL STICKS
DATA ACQUISITION
DISPLAY SYSTEMS
F-16 AIRCRAFT
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
Human Factors Engineering & Man Machine System
JET FIGHTERS
LANDING
MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS
MIRRORS
MISSIONS
PE622202F
SENSES(PHYSIOLOGY)
SPACE(ROOM)
THREE DIMENSIONAL
TRACKING
VIRTUAL REALITY
VISION
WUAFRL71843808
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Summary:An experiment was conducted in which subjects had to land a simulated F-16 aircraft using a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) facility, a three-dimensional virtual environment room consisting of multiple mirrors, 3-D video- projected displays in a highly stressful environment. This performance study was accomplished when the six subjects had a haptic stick (force reflecting joystick) condition being either on or off. The tracking mission studied herein also had the constraint that the participants were required to land the aircraft in only one attempt. During the data collection, the visual scene was partially obscured by clouds in the early part of the mission, thus reducing the available visual field. Hence, it was hypothesized that the subjects may benefit more from sensory information provided by the haptic manipulandum when the visual field was reduced. The main results of this study indicate that performance can be enhanced in the CAVE by the haptic condition. One negative aspect of this study was that the CAVE scenario was found to be so extremely compelling that in two situations, subjects could not complete the experiment due to simulator-induced sickness instigated by their exposure to the highly immersive visual field which became quite overwhelming.