The paper presents the results of analyses conducted at the Air Force Institute of Technology (ITWL) regarding the feasibility of using a helmet-mounted display system to control the armament of upgraded military helicopters. The general section discusses selected methods and systems used for tracking and determining the angular position of the helmet, as well as supporting the pilot in helmet-mounted armament control.The detailed section presents the results of an analysis of selected algorithms for determining helmet orientation used on military aircraft, which are utilized to control the angular position of visual data acquisition components (e.g., observation and targeting heads) and armament (e.g., a suspended mobile station with an installed machine gun or cannon). The implementation of this topic was accepted for funding by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as a research and development project.
REVIEW OF COMPUTER-ASSIST METHODS FOR THE TRACKING OF THE PILOT’S HELMET ORIENTATION AS APPLIED IN THE HELMET-MOUNTED CUEING SYSTEMS TO CONTROL MILITARY HELICOPTER’S ARMAMENT
The paper has been intended to present results of the AFIT-conducted studies on the suitability of the helmet-mounted display system to control armament systems of upgraded military helicopters. Some selected methods and systems used to track the pilot’s helmet orientation and support a pilot as far as the helmet-mounted capabilities are concerned (to control the armament systems) have been discussed in ‘Generalities’. In the part on the particularities presented are analyses of some selected algorithms of a helmet-orientation tracking system, in use on military aircraft to control the orientation of the visual data acquisition unit (e.g. the electro-optical surveillance system) and the armament systems (e.g. rotational platform with 12.7 machine gun).
This project has been financed by the Ministry of Science & Higher Education of Poland as a research project (R&D). (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine