An experiment that examined how changes in a motion platform drive filter affect pilot-vehicle performance and opinion was conducted on the NASA Ames Vertical Motion Simulator. Pilots controlled a simplified helicopter model in the vertical or the directional axis and tracked a randomly moving target aircraft in the presence of a random disturbance. With both tasks, variations from full motion to fixed-base conditions were made in the high-pass drive filter gain and natural frequency. The results indicate that vertical motion did not affect the open-loop pilot-vehicle target-tracking crossover frequency, but target-tracking phase margins improved with increased filter gain or decreased natural frequency. Vertical disturbance-rejection crossover frequency increased with decreasing filter natural frequency, while disturbance rejection phase margins improved with increasing filter gain. Vertical tracking errors increased significantly when all vertical motion was removed. No significant differences were measured among the directional configurations, which indicates that pure yaw motion cues may not be as important as previously thought in flight simulation.


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    Title :

    Simulation motion effect on single axis compensatory tracking


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    Publication date :

    1993-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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