SBIR-STTR Award

With over 80 years of combined experience in simulation and engineering, the four-member Visual Performance technical team will assess the feasibility of developing an objective and efficient measurement toolkit. The proposed design will meet, if not exceed, the minimum requirements set forth in the RFP.

Benefit:
The initial users of the toolkit will be NAWCTSD's SimCert engineers and in-service engineers who will use the kit for conducting validated acceptance tests for simulation training display systems. The Visual Performance team anticipates that the automated processes will provide these certification professionals a substantial time savings in addition to providing objective measures that can also aid suppliers. Moreover, we anticipate that the toolkit will gain widespread acceptance in the supplier community and in other branches of the military because of its relative low cost.

Keywords:
Automated testing, Automated testing, Effective Measures, factory acceptance, Training Display, measurement system, Validation, Display System Calibration

The Visual Performance (VP) team proposes to design, construct, test, and refine the design of a Display Measurement Toolkit (DMT) that will allow SimCert and ISE professionals to rapidly measure display systems and compute the 14 metrics defined in the Phase I report. These metrics include: static, blend, and dynamic resolution, sampling artifact magnitude, luminance, contrast, channel and blend uniformity, absolute, relative, and blend geometry, and collimator distance, dipvergence, and distortion. VP will demonstrate and test the DMT in three alpha test events at NAWCTSD. VP will conduct two additional beta test events at two separate simulation training facilities and encompassing both rotary and fixed wing training devices. One will have a real-image display and one will have a collimated display. VP will demonstrate all 14 metrics during the alpha test events at NAWCTSD and at least nine metrics during the beta test events at the other training sites. VP will validate the correlation between performance and the metrics that differ substantially from current practice. Where sufficient data cannot be found in the literature, validation studies will be performed.

Benefit:
* Increase in measurement speed of the display measurement process. * The ability to precisely and objectively measure key performance parameters for which objective or suitable subjective measures do not currently exist. * The ability to measure several key performance parameters with much greater precision than can be achieved with existing methods. * The ability to rapidly complete measurements on a periodic basis so that training device performance can be maintained over the life of the system. * The ability to collect and save more complete statistics, graphics, and data sets (inaddition to the acceptance test results) will allow NAWCTSD to perform more useful analyses across training devices, suppliers, programs and over time.

Keywords:
Training Display, Automated testing, Validation, Effective Measures, measurement system, Display System Calibration