Application of large head-box aircraft transparency distortion measurement and compensation for improved cueing in helmet-mounted displays

Mark S. Fischler; Daniel Campbell; Robert Atac; Jim Melzer

doi:10.1117/1.OE.56.5.051403

26 January 2017 Application of large head-box aircraft transparency distortion measurement and compensation for improved cueing in helmet-mounted displays

Mark S. Fischler, Daniel Campbell, Robert Atac, Jim Melzer

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 56, Issue 5, 051403 (January 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.5.051403

Abstract

See-through distortion can occur when a pilot looks through a curved aircraft transparency because of a weak lens effect. A helmet-mounted display (HMD) system must either compensate for this distortion or incur a distortion error in its total error budget. We describe a method for characterization of and compensation for aircraft transparency distortion, allowing for increased targeting accuracy and reduced binocular vergence errors from any position within a large head box. We present techniques for compensating for transparency distortion for the entire HMD head box and implications observed based on applying these techniques for A-10 and F-16 aircraft transparencies.

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Mark S. Fischler, Daniel Campbell, Robert Atac, and Jim Melzer "Application of large head-box aircraft transparency distortion measurement and compensation for improved cueing in helmet-mounted displays," Optical Engineering 56(5), 051403 (26 January 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.5.051403

Received: 28 September 2016; Accepted: 12 December 2016; Published: 26 January 2017

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