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Situational Awareness And Synthetic Vision For Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight Testing, Joseph M. Dugan
Situational Awareness And Synthetic Vision For Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight Testing, Joseph M. Dugan
Theses and Dissertations
The Advanced Navigation Technology (ANT) Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) is currently exploring ways to develop and advance the employment of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) by the Department of Defense for military purposes. The research in this thesis describes the development of a tool that enhances situational awareness and provides synthetic vision in a program called the Aviator Visual Display Simulator (AVDS) during UAV flight. During flight testing, the Situational Awareness and Synthetic Vision Relay Tool (SASVRT) developed provides the test coordinator and pilot, as well as the safety observers, with the most pertinent information …