Ernst, Johannes M. and Schmerwitz, Sven and Lüken, Thomas and Ebrecht, Lars (2017) Designing a virtual cockpit for helicopter offshore operations. In: Proceedings of SPIE. SPIE Press. SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2017, 9.-13. Apr. 2017, Anaheim, Kalifornien, USA. doi: 10.1117/12.2262482.
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In recent years the number of offshore wind farms is rapidly increasing. Especially coastal European countries are building numerous offshore wind turbines in the Baltic, the North, and the Irish Sea. During both construction and operation of these wind farms, many specially-equipped helicopters are on duty. Due to their flexibility, their hover capability, and their higher speed compared to ships, these aircraft perform important tasks like helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) as well as passenger and freight transfer flights. The missions often include specific challenges like ship landings or hoist operations to drop off workers onto wind turbines. However, adverse weather conditions frequently limit offshore helicopter operations. In such scenarios, the adoption of aircraft-mounted sensors and obstacle databases together with helmet-mounted displays (HMD) seems to offer great potential to improve the operational capabilities of the helicopters used. By displaying environmental information in a visual conformal manner, these systems mitigate the loss of visual reference to the environment. This helps the pilots to maintain proper situational awareness (SA). This paper presents how our previously introduced concept of an HMD-based virtual flight deck can enhance offshore helicopter missions. The advantages of this system – for instance its “see-through the airframe”-capability and its highly-flexible cockpit instrument setup – enable us to design entirely novel pilot assistance systems. The work analyzes the specific requirements on our virtual cockpit so as to assist the helicopter crew in offshore-specific tasks. The gained knowledge is used to propose and evaluate concepts for a virtual cockpit that is tailor-made for helicopter offshore maneuvers.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/106227/ | |||||||||||||||
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Document Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) | |||||||||||||||
Title: | Designing a virtual cockpit for helicopter offshore operations | |||||||||||||||
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Date: | 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of SPIE | |||||||||||||||
Refereed publication: | Yes | |||||||||||||||
Open Access: | Yes | |||||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | |||||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | |||||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | |||||||||||||||
DOI : | 10.1117/12.2262482 | |||||||||||||||
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Publisher: | SPIE Press | |||||||||||||||
Series Name: | Proc. SPIE | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Keywords: | Virtual Cockpit, Offshore Helicopter Operations, Helmet-Mounted Display, Head-Worn Display, Virtual Reality, Degraded Visual Environment, External Vision, Pilot Assistance | |||||||||||||||
Event Title: | SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Event Location: | Anaheim, Kalifornien, USA | |||||||||||||||
Event Type: | international Conference | |||||||||||||||
Event Dates: | 9.-13. Apr. 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Organizer: | SPIE | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Aeronautics | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | rotorcraft | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Aeronautics | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | L RR - Rotorcraft Research | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | L - The Smart Rotorcraft (old) | |||||||||||||||
Location: | Braunschweig | |||||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Flight Guidance > Pilot Assistance | |||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Ernst, Johannes Maria | |||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 15 Nov 2016 11:32 | |||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2020 15:26 |
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