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2021-09-01

Russian Helicopters Presents Cockpit Mock-up at Army-2021

Russian Helicopters Holding (a part of the Rostec State Corporation) unveiled at the International Military-Technical Forum Army-2021 a mock-up cabin of advanced Russian helicopters, which was developed following requirements for ergonomics and functionality.

This future cockpit mock-up will allow mastering several technologies at once, including the use of sensory “glass cockpit” application, forecasting system and pilot’s decision-making support and so on.

Importantly, in the research and development process of the cockpit mock-up, several concepts and technologies will be tested.

The ergonomic cockpit mock-up research work is aimed at flight safety improvement, as well as reliability and efficiency of helicopter crews.

The information and control field of the future helicopter cockpit is formed in such a way as to reduce the crew’s psychophysical and intellectual workload while in flight, as well as to maintain its full situational awareness.

Andrey Boginsky, CEO of Russian Helicopters, elaborated: “We have set ourselves a task, in cooperation with leading research centers and domestic avionics manufacturers, to find optimal technical solutions that will allow us to build new principles of interaction between pilot and helicopter, reduce the load on the crew and human factor influence, and significantly improve flight safety. Onboard avionics equipment development will seriously change the face of modern helicopters soon, and I am confident that this research work will allow us to take the lead in these changes.”

Crew Support System

Another crucial area of research will be intelligent crew support system application with interactive forecasting algorithms, optimal control problems solving, support system decision, space-time flight path construction optimisation, including for high-precision flights in artificial obstacle conditions.

In addition, the future cabin will explore the optimal automation concept, which involves a “virtual pilot” introduction and rational functions distribution between him and the crew. The mockup will be used to test the concept of applying augmented reality elements with a “synthetic vision” system implementation, based on information compilation from various onboard sensors and systems.

The cockpit mock-up was commissioned by Russian Helicopters on behalf of broad cooperation of avionics equipment developers and manufacturers, which includes “Research and Testing Institute of Ergatic Systems “JSC, “Navigator” JSC, FGUP GosNIIAS and the Research Test Center of Aviation and Space Medicine and Military Ergonomics of the Central Research Institute of Air Force of the Defense Ministry.

The expert organisation for the project is the V.P. Chkalov State Flight Research Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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