RU2327225C1 - Virtual simulator of remotely piloted aircraft operator - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: simulators.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to aircraft simulators and may be used for training of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) operators. Simulator includes operator workstation close to real RPA, RPA and engine controls, remote control panel with radio channel, personal computer (laptop), and operator helmet with virtual glasses and positioning unit. RPA with standard turn, pitch and track controls as well as motor controls are remotely controlled by operator via radio channel from remote control panel through flight movement adapter connected with special easily removable turn, pitch and track sensors fastened to RPA deflectors, screens, elevators and rudders with magnets. For this purpose, sensor output is connected via adapter to laptop input. Besides, laptop output is connected with virtual glasses and positioning unit displaced on RPA operator helmet ensuring virtual RPA piloting. Power supply for turn, pitch and track sensors and engine control sensor is provided from laptop battery.

EFFECT: improvement of RPA operators training; improvement of RPA flight safety.

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Description

The invention relates to the field of flight simulators.

Closest to the proposed invention is a virtual simulator containing the operator’s workplace in the cockpit of a real object with full-time controls, blocks of objective control and weapon control systems, a virtual reality unit paired with virtual glasses through an adapter (RF patent No. 214946 dated 05.20. 2000).

A significant drawback of such a simulator is that the operator must be in the cockpit of a real remotely piloted aircraft (UAV), which by definition is impossible. In addition, objective control and weapon control systems should be in a working ratio.

The objective of the invention is the implementation by the operator of a virtual flight of the UAV remotely via the radio channel, while the UAV itself with the standard controls is in the parking lot of the airfield (site) or in the hangar, the onboard control and weapon systems are disabled.

This goal is achieved by the fact that the operator is located near the UAV with a remote control of the UAV over the air, a personal computer (laptop) and a helmet worn on the head with virtual glasses and a positioning unit that are connected to the laptop. In this case, the remote control of the UAV with the standard controls for roll, pitch, heading, as well as engine control is carried out by the operator using the remote control of the UAV over the air through the motion transmission adapter, paired with special roll-off, pitch and heading sensors that are easily removable on the suction cup magnets. mounted on deflecting control surfaces of the UAV, respectively on the sides, elevators and directions. Electric power to the roll, pitch and heading sensors, as well as the engine control sensor, is provided by the laptop battery.

The software in the laptop forms an image on the monitors of virtual glasses in the form of a virtual board of the UAV and the earth's surface of a virtual flight.

The block diagram of a virtual simulator operator UAV presented in the drawing.

The proposed virtual simulator of the operator’s UAV contains a real UAV with standard controls (1), easily detachable roll-on sensors (2), pitch (3), direction (4) and engine control (5), easily removable on suction cup magnets, and a remote control for the UAV (6 ) with a radio channel (7) having roll control knobs (8), pitch (9), direction (10) and engine control knob (11), motion transmission adapter (12), laptop (13), virtual glasses (14) with positioning unit (15).

Virtual simulator UAV works as follows.

Previously, an operator with a remote control UAV (6) takes his workplace near a real UAV with full-time controls (X), puts on a helmet with virtual glasses (14) and a positioning unit (15), includes a laptop (13) with software for virtual UAV flight . As a result, from the laptop (13) to the virtual glasses (14), their monitors receive electrical signals in the form of a sequence of codes of inventions of the virtual dashboard of the UAV and the earth's surface under the UAV. At the same time, the operator via the radio channel (7), using the control knobs of the UAV for roll (8), pitch (9), direction (10), engine (11), as well as inventions on virtual glasses monitors (14), performs virtual take-off and flight UAV for a given program. In a virtual flight, at the moment the operator turns his head to view the earth's surface, from the output of the positioning unit (15), mounted on a helmet with virtual glasses (14), electrical signals are sent to the laptop (13) to synchronize the operator’s image visible on the virtual glasses monitors (fourteen). At the same time, when the operator on the remote control of the UAV (6) rejects the UAV control handles in roll (8), pitch (9), direction (10), the engine (11) receives radio signals (7) via the motion transmission adapter (12), the electric signals into a laptop (13) to change the flight dynamics program and the power plant (engine) of the UAV, as well as the formation of the flight parameters of the virtual flight on the virtual glasses monitors (14).

The use of a virtual simulator of the operator of the UAV will help maintain professionally important qualities of the operators of the UAV and increase the safety of the flight of the UAV. The economic efficiency of such virtual simulators is quite high - the cost of one hour of a virtual UAV flight on the proposed simulator is no more than 60-100 rubles, and a real UAV flight is 1-2 orders of magnitude higher.

Claims (1)

A virtual simulator for the operator of a remotely piloted aircraft, containing the operator’s workstation near a real UAV, controls for the UAV and its engine, a remote control for UAVs with a radio channel, a personal computer (laptop), an operator helmet with virtual glasses and a positioning unit, characterized in that external deviating surfaces of the UAV specially mounted sensors for angle of roll, pitch, direction and control of the engine, easily removable on magnetic "suction cups", output cat through the motion transmission adapter, it is connected to the laptop input, and the output of the latter is connected to virtual glasses and a positioning unit located on the helmet of the operator of the UAV, providing virtual piloting of the UAV on the ground, and after dismantling the easily removable sensors for roll, pitch, direction and inclusion of on-board objective control systems and armament management allowing for the full-time management of real UAVs, as on a simulator.