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To meet the requirements of various Human/System Interaction (HSI) studies, ONERA has installed an ST Engineering Antycip flight simulator, incorporating a research cockpit for large aircraft such as the Airbus A320 or A350 to immerse the human operator in an environment as close as possible to the real thing, which necessarily involves the visual. ONERA, through its Cognitive Engineering and Applied Neuroscience unit (ICNA), conducts cognitive engineering activities for the development of new HSI concepts for managing complex systems or operations.
The brand new simulator – SCHEMAX – includes a bespoke 5m long x 2.7m high cylindrical composite screen, which was delivered in six separate panels and built on site. With a field of view of 220 x 45 degrees, the bespoke screen is powered by three Barco FL40 projectors, which are designed from the ground up to handle the simulation environment’s most rigorous training requirements. The team also selected auto-calibration blending and warping, and for night-time simulation, integrated optical blending, tracking, and active 3D glasses.
“We only had 13 weeks from validation to delivery,” said Quentin Blancheri, ST Engineering Antycip’s key account manager. “This was made possible thanks to the relationships ST Engineering Antycip has with other manufacturers like Barco, as well as our expertise in optical blending, which meant the team went onsite already knowing where to place projectors down to the millimetre. Rigging projectors with extreme precision is usually rather time-consuming, but the team planned well and anticipated ONERA’s needs enough to order the perfect gear.”
ONERA provided the cockpit and the PC Suite, though ST Engineering Antycip suggested the right computer specs for the job. The content, which also comes from ONERA, is fed via display port (two PCs per projector) and viewed using VR Vantage.
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“There were also some very specific constraints about the surroundings,” said Blancheri. “There are military jets that regularly fly above and there is a quarry nearby with regular explosions, so it was important to make sure everything was properly rigged and that there was an auto-calibration or scalable display that could be called up at the touch of a button.
