Augmented Reality Pilot Display for Virtual Airspace Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current combat training systems for pilots lack the ability to provide realistic visual feedback of virtual and constructive assets, limiting training effectiveness and requiring high-skilled pilots to manage multiple devices, which is resource-intensive and hinders the adoption of new transport solutions like urban aviation.
Innovation Solution
An online platform using augmented and virtual reality, coupled with Coupled Fusion Tracking, allows real pilots in real aircraft to engage in virtual airspace, providing high-fidelity visual feedback and tracking the pilot's and aircraft's state for enhanced training through augmented reality displays and sensor systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional training systems use instruments or flight computers to display enemies, then pilots can receive enemy information, but pilots cannot see realistic visual representations of enemies in the sky
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an augmented reality display system as an intermediary between the flight computer's enemy data and the pilot's visual perception. The system overlays virtual enemy aircraft representations onto the pilot's field of view through augmented reality glasses, allowing pilots to see realistic visual representations of enemies without adding complex physical displays to the cockpit.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical display devices (instruments and flight computers) with an optical-based augmented reality system. Instead of using physical displays that require pilot attention and interpretation, the system projects visual information directly into the pilot's vision field, substituting mechanical information delivery with optical visualization.
2Measurement precision
If pilots are highly skilled to manage multiple devices for flight navigation, then navigation accuracy is maintained, but pilot requirements become complex and limit new transport solutions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple navigation and enemy tracking devices into a unified augmented reality display interface. Instead of requiring pilots to monitor and interpret data from separate instruments and flight computers, the system integrates all this information into a single cohesive visual overlay that presents navigation and combat information together in the pilot's field of view.
Solution Approach 2:
The augmented reality display system performs multiple functions simultaneously: it displays enemy positions, provides navigation guidance, and maintains situational awareness information all through a single interface. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for pilots to manage multiple separate devices while maintaining comprehensive situational control.
3Reliability
If existing systems provide limited visual content for virtual and constructive assets, then system complexity is reduced, but training value is significantly limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates visual copies of virtual and constructive assets (enemy aircraft, targets, obstacles) and overlays them onto the pilot's real-world view through augmented reality. These digital copies are rendered with sufficient visual fidelity to provide realistic training scenarios, allowing pilots to practice against virtual enemies that appear as if they are physically present in the sky.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein is a system for facilitating real pilots in real aircraft using augmented and virtual reality to meet in a virtual piece of airspace, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the system may include a communication device configured for receiving at least one first sensor data corresponding to at least one first sensor associated with a first vehicle (and receiving at least one second sensor data corresponding to at least one second sensor associated with a second vehicle). Further, the communication device may be configured for transmitting at least one second presentation data to at least one second presentation device associated with the second vehicle. Further, the system may include a processing device configured for generating the at least one second presentation data based on the at least one first sensor data and the at least one second sensor data.