Date of Award
12-2017
Access Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Department
Graduate Studies
Committee Chair
Dr. Richard "Pat" Anderson
First Committee Member
Dr. Borja Martos
Second Committee Member
Dr. Richard Prazenica
Third Committee Member
Prof. Glenn Greiner
Abstract
A low-cost wearable Commercial-off-The-Shelf (COTS) Augmented Reality (AR) Head-Up Display (HUD) system is designed, successfully reduced to practice, and flight tested. The system is developed based on the need for a technology that improves loss-of-control (LOC) safety in the General Aviation (GA) sector. The accuracy of the flight-path based system is determined to be within a degree of the truth source. The repeatability of the data from the COTS system is excellent. A complementary filter is proposed for air data flow angles and successfully flight tested for straight and level flight, dynamic maneuvering, and atmospheric turbulence, provided that a reasonably accurate lift curve is determined. A novel accelerometer method is proposed for estimating the relative pitch attitude estimation of the pilot’s head. The method is evaluated on the ground and in flight, and is shown to be superior to other commercially available solutions. The HUD system is shown, through various test points, to make flying more intuitive and efficient, thereby affecting the GA LOC. In all the performed tasks, experienced and inexperienced pilots are used to fly the aircraft and evaluate the technology.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Chinta, Pavan K., "Low-Cost Wearable Head-Up Display for Flight General Aviation" (2017). Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses. 362.
https://commons.erau.edu/edt/362
