Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness (T-Nasa) System: Problem, Design Philosophy, and Description of An Integrated Display Suite for Low-Visibility Airport Surface Operations

Document Number: 965551

Date Published: October 1996

Author(s):
David C. Foyle - NASA Ames Research Center
Anthony D. Andre - Western Aerospace Laboratories
Robert S. McCann - Western Aerospace Laboratories
Elizabeth M. Wenzel - NASA Ames Research Center
Durand R. Begault - San Jose State University Foundation
Vernol Battiste - NASA Ames Research Center

Abstract:
An integrated cockpit display suite, the T-NASA (Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness) system, is under development for NASA's Terminal Area Productivity (TAP) Low-Visibility Landing and Surface Operations (LVLASO) program. This system has three integrated components: Moving Map -- track-up airport surface display with ownship, traffic and graphical route guidance; Scene-Linked Symbology -- route/taxi information virtually projected via a Head-up Display (HUD) onto the forward scene; and 3-D Audio Ground Collision Avoidance Warning (GCAW) system -- spatially-localized auditory traffic alerts. In this paper, surface operations in low-visibility conditions, the design philosophy of the T-NASA system, and the T-NASA system display components are described

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