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FLIGHT SIMULATOR FOR HYPERSONIC VEHICLE AND A STUDY OF NASP HANDLING QUAId-TIES t_5 ANNUAL REPORT Prepared for NASA CENTER OF RESEARCH EXCELLENCE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY 2; .
i ii | i: -; Celestine A. Ntuen, Ph.D.
Eui H. Park, Ph.D.
_= =____ Joseph M. Deeb, Ph.D.
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Jung H. Kim, Ph.D.
| lJ Human-Machine Systems Engineering Group School of Engineering North Carolina A&T State University = = , Greensboro, NC 27411 December, 1992 Z A. AREA SUMMARY The research goal of the Human-Machine Systems Engineering Group was to study the existing handling quality studies in aircrafts with sonic to supersonic speeds and power in order to understand information requirements needed for a hypersonic vehicle flight simulator. This goal falls within the NASA task statements: w ;*L l_lop Flight Simulator for HEpersonic Vehicle 2. Study NASP Handling Qualities 3. Study EReO.s of Flexibility on Handling Qualities and on Control System Performance Following the above statement of work, the group has developed three research strategies.
w These are: _1. To study existing handling quality studies and the associated airerafts and develop flight simulation data characterization: =2. To develop a profile for flight simulation data acquisition based on objective : _ statement #1 above, iH 3. To develop a simulator and an embedded expert system platform which can be used in handling quality experiments for hypersonic aircraft/flight simulation training.
B. AREA RF..SAERCH PROJECTS Titl_..._e:Investigation of Human Response Error In A Flight Simulation Domain PI: Celestine A. Ntuen Investigation of A Model To Analyze Pilot/Vehicle Interaction In A Hypersonic Flight w Simulator Joseph M. Deeb m Titl..__ee: A Robust Methodology For Visual Reconstruction and Surface Rendering For a NASP Cockpit Environment.
PI: Jung H. Kim and Eui H. Park C. PROGRAM ACTIVITIRS To achieve objective #1, extensive data is being collected from various sources including NASA handling quality source data, U.S. Air Force handling quality handbooks, and MIT's Center For Man.Machine Flight Simulation Reports. The research outcome for this objective is in progress and is to be published under the title: "I)eveloDment of Flight Database Usine Handlin20ualitv Studies". Data in this category are: • Type of aircraft.
• Aircraft categories (e.g; sonic, hypersonic, etc.).
• Aircraft aerodynamic parameters.
[J _J • Human (pilot) characteristics.
w • Environment in which handling quality are derived.
• Controllable and non-controllable variables in the flight simulation studies.
• The performance data (dependent variables) of interest.
Data collection for handling quality (HQ) was accelerated by documents made t 4 available to the group by Dr. L. Taylor of NASA Langley Research Center. While the group continues to develop conceptual models for synthetic flight simulation for hypersonic vehicle, the following drawbacks were encountered: - It is difficult to develop the simulator from scratch. It would be better if an unused flight simulator could become available for the NASA-CORE project by NASA. This can be through surplus equipment identifleation from any of the NASA research w centers.
. The group also needs a technical monitor from NASA. The person should have a background in developing flight training simulators and/or human factors with bias = =ii/ in human-machine interaction. In all meetings related to the project, the Human- Machine Group is always left out when discussions on future directions and research accomplishments are discussed. We need a collaborator to consult with in matters related to the group.
The original proposal to develop a prototype simulation model is behind by about four months due to lateness in equipment delivery. However, there is no loss time since the investigators are developing concepts and theories related to the Research program.
D. FACULTY AND STUDENT PARTICIPATION
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Faculty Imrtidimuts Research Interest CORE No. of Faculty De_nt Ethnic Teaching Interest Students Responsibility Affiliation Back8.
Advised _ m nmw Celestlme A. Black Human-Machine Human.Machine Team Leader Ntuen Interaction Systems s_teuu_ ArtmcUd lntemgence and Rellablll/y Etd ELPark Team Member Asian Simu_on, QuUty Manufacturing ControlManufacturlnll Systems, Robotics & Quality Control White Human Factors & Team Member Joseph M. Deeb Human Fac/ors, Ergonomics and Manual Ergonomics Mah.rhd Handling _L Aahm Team Member Comput, r Vision & Shpmdl'roc_tnS Jung IL Klm S_ud ere¢_ Expert SysteB NASA-CORE (HUMAN-MACH/NE SYSTEMS GROUP) Student Partic/pmtt's Profile Addr_ Advisor Cl_--n.h/p/ Classlflc_tlon GPA M._or Group Woodrow U.S.A. Senior' 3.15 912 ¥s/rgr_n Road J. Deeb Greensboro, NC 27410 Winchester (Black) 401L.C Savannah Street Senior* 2L05 C. Ntuen Christopher U.S.A.
Greensboro, NC 27406 Ge/ser (Black) Erika First Semester 3.5 C. Ntuen _20-B Cottage Place Mansfield Greensboro, NC 27455 Graduate in UG Student The three students work as a team on a project entitled: "The Development of Flight Simulation Database Using Handling Quality Studies". An object-oriented database using = functional nets is used as an investigative tool. The paper has been submitted for conference presented by the students.
E, PROGRAM IMPACT AND FINANCIAL REPORT Project Impact Statement .
Two African-American students mentored and encouraged in the senior undergraduate year to consider graduate school. All two students will be full time graduate students in Industrial Engineering beginning Spring 1993.
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Two African-American students have been admitted to graduate program in Industrial Engineering beginning Spring 1993 (one female and one male).
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As a part of our pipeline recruitment process, two senior Industrial Engineering students will join the research team in January of 1993.
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There are 146 undergraduate students in the Department of Industrial Engineering of which 124 students (or 85%) are African-American. The graduate program has 40 students, of which 36 students (or 90%) are African-American.
, Enrollment prediction for the next five years in Industrial Engineering Year Graduate Total Undergraduate 1993 146 40 (MSIE) 186 1994 lS0 40 (MSIE) 190 1995 155 45 (MSIE) 200 w 1996 155 SO (MSIE + PH.D) 205 1997 160 220 50 (MSIE + PH.D) _mr With tt is growth prediction, it is expectedthat five full time fa :ulty (teaching and research) and at least one research faculty will be needed.
1maw K/m, J.H., Yoon, S.H., Park, E.H. and Ntuen, C.A., Recognition of Partially Occluded Threat Objects Using the Annealed Hopfield Network, Proc. of SPIE OF/Technology Conference, Boston, Massachusetts: 15-20 Nov., 1992.
a Brooks, T.D., and Kim, J.H., An Approach to Three.Dimensional Object Recognition Usin I A Hybrid Hopfield Network, Submitted. IEEE Southeastcon '93, Charlotte, N.C.
Knight, D.D. and Kim, J.H., Object Identification Using a Reconstructed Surface of W Concealed Object, Submitted, IEEE Southeastcon '93, Charlotte, N.C.
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Ntuen, CA. Information Theoretic Models of Human-Machine Interaction, Submitted. International Journal for Information Sciences.
W Ntuen, C.A., Park, E.H., Deeb, J.M., Geiger, C., Mansfield, F_. and Winchester, W.
The Development of Flight Simulation, Database Using Handling Quality Studies, Submitted, lSth Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Cocoa Beach, FL, March 8-10, 1993.
Ntuen, C.A., A New Approach To Modeling Human Response Errors In Synthetic Flight Simulator Domain, _;ubmitted, lSth Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Cocoa Beach, FL, March 8-10, 1993.
w Johnson, A_IL, Ntuen, C.A. and Park, E.H., An Experimental Study of Human Interpretation of Computer Generated Image Data, Submittfd., lSth Intl. Conference w on Human.Computer Interaction/gth Japanese Symposium on Human Interface, Orlando, FL, August 8.13, 1993.
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Area Finandal Report BUDGET FOR THE FIRST YEAR ALIX)CATION ACTUAL EXPENSES _OF ITEMS SPENDING 1. Investigators' Salaries t $ 40,._0 $ 34,309 85 % 2. Secretary Salary $ 1,$00 $ 0 0 % 3. Student Assistanship z $ 7,_00 $ 4,473 60 % qw_ 4. Fringe Benefits 3 $ 10,800 $ 9,308 86% r_ 5. Indirect Costs 4 $ 27,_25 $ 21,330 78% 6. Direct Costs $ 30,362 81% $ 37,2ss 95 % $ 22,193 - Scientific Equipment s S _(,ss w 43 % $ 7.0oo $ 852 - Lab/Office Supplies Contracted Services 6 I00 % $ soo $ 5O0 0% $ o - Other Supplies $ 1,000 68% Travel Expenses 7 $ 6,000 $ 4,to4 0% . Printing s $ 400 $ o 0% $ 2O0 $ o - Postage Books/Journals 9 60% $ 1,$00 $ 9o3 $5% . Tuition/Scholarships to $ 7.ooo $ 1,090 TOTAL I[- NOTE: 1. Investigators' release times for this project are as follows: - Dr. Celestine Ntuen (1 man-month) - Dr. Joseph Deeb (3.625 man-months) - Dr. Eui Park (0.43 man-month) Dr. Jung Klm (1 man-month) 2. This project successfully motivated three Al_can-American students to pursue their advanced degrees in Industrial Engineering. Ms. Erika Mansfield started her graduate study in Fall of 1992. Both Mr. Woodrow Winchester and Mr. Christopher Geiger are senior students and will join the Industrial Engineering graduate program in Spring of 1993.
3. 24 % of Items 1 and 3, and 7.6_;% of Item 3.
_m_ i 4. 5$ % of Items 1, 2 and 3.
$. Four equipment are purchased as follows to implement this project.
- DT Image Grabber - MATRIX, Simulation Software L - SUN SPARCstation 10 - HP Laser Jet IIIP .
This was used to build a pilot seat simulator.
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All investigators visited NASA.Langley Research Center to discuss our research direction and to collect research materials in May 1992. Drs. Nmen and Deeb attended a workshop in June on "Fundamentals of Flight Simulation" organized by MIT.
Q Library copy cards were purchased for necessary materials to be copied.
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Necessary books to implement this project were purchased.
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These funds were used to support tuition fees for Mr. Winchester and Mr. Geiger.
u Student Support ud Equipment Pin, based
STUD. ENT St PORT
i | Name SUMMER 1992 FALL 1992 Woodrow Winchester 20 hrs/wk 15 hrs/wk Christopher Geiger 10 hrs/wk 15 hrs/wk w i Erika Mansfield 20 hrs/wk w EQUIPMENT PURCHASED PRICE DELIVERY STATUS
EQUIPMENT
DT Precision Frame $ 2,661.00 June 1992 Grabber MATRIX_ $ 1,054.70 not yet i w SUN SPARCstation 10 $ 19,197.66 not yet HP Laser Jet IIIP/DeskJet $ 1,534.00 not yet TOTAL
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24,447.36 J L_ Students and Faculty Profiles w Research Assistants' profde Address Clmsiflcmion GPA Advisor Research Citizenship M.Oor w Asslstanl Woodrow Winchester U.S.A. 9L2 Fslrgreen I_L Industrial Senior* 3,L5 J. Deeb Greensboro, NC 27410 _rln8 : w Christopher Gelser U.S.A. 40g.C Savannah St. Industrial Senior* 3.05 C. Ntuen Greensboro, NC 274O6 Engineering _-- : U.S.A. C. Ntueu Graduate 3.25 Industrial Erika Mansfield 2920-B Cottage Place ! ww in UG Student Greensboro, NC 27455 V_Cn_rU_
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Invesagators' Prome _wam_r cmmuma_ Addmm= _*esrda _mun_.
Dr. Celestine Ntuen Nigeria 3101 Paddington Street Human-Machine Systems, Artificial (Permanent Resident In U.S.A.) Greensboro, NC 27406 Intell_nce, & Reliability Dr. EuJ Park U.S.A. t623 Helmwood Dr. Manufacturing Systems, Robotics, & Greensboro, NC 27411 Quality Control Dr. Joseph deeb U.S.A. 1715 Swannanoa Dr. Human Factor/Ergonomics, & Manual Greensboro, NC 27410 Material Handling Dr. Jung Klm U.S.A. S_nai Precessin& & Expert Systems 2711 New garden I_L Greensboro, NC 27408 w NOTE: * They will be Ill the IE Graduate Prognun from the Spring semester of 1993.
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