01 - Aircraft Design and Integrated Systems
GAZE-BASED INTERFACE FOR FLIGHT CONTROL: RESULTS OF INITIAL EXPERIMENTS WITH THE SYSTEM
M.A. Rodriguez Diaz¹, E. Villani¹, P. Krus, Linköping University, Sweden; ¹Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil
Aviation has seen immense progress, yet current pilot interfaces have barely changed since the first heavier-than-air aircrafts. Using body gesture and eye gaze direction as manned aircraft control input methods became possible with curent technology, such a system presents the possibility to reduce pilot workload or that a person with less training time be able to issue commands to an aircraft.