Advanced Helo Display for Zero-Zero Shipboard Landings Navy SBIR FY2013.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2013.2 Topic No.: N132-133 Topic Title: Advanced Helo Display for Zero-Zero Shipboard Landings Proposal No.: N132-133-1002 Firm: Systems Technology, Inc. 13766 S. Hawthorne Blvd. Hawthorne, California 90250-7083 Contact: Edward Bachelder Phone: (310) 679-2281 Web Site: www.systemstech.com Abstract: Landing a piloted helicopter such as the SH-60R on the moving deck of a small ship currently requires close cooperation between the pilot, copilot, Landing Safety Officer (LSO), and the onboard Sensor Operator (for RAST/free deck recoveries). This critical task is resource-intensive and can be extremely challenging due to factors that include: 1) deck constraints requiring precise flight maneuvering, stabilization, and landing execution; 2) a landing target that moves randomly in six degrees-of-freedom; 3) a chaotic airmass that buffets the helicopter; and 4) the helicopter's proximity to the ship structure constrains the pilot in command's attention to the forward hangar face when hovering over the deck. Systems Technology, Inc. proposes to leverage advances in ship motion prediction, human-machine integration, display design, and brain-monitoring analysis with the Adaptive Shipboard Recovery Display (ASRD). ASRD will allow single pilot deck recovery, displaying a set of intuitively integrated guidance and spatial cues that are optimized in real time for wake turbulence, observed and predicted ship motion, and pilot control capability. While accounting for nominal helicopter dynamics, ASRD will also adapt to changes in the airframe and task such as boost off, SAS off, RAST, free deck, and one-engine-inoperative landing. Benefits: The product emerging from this proposed program is the Adaptive Shipboard Recovery Display (ASRD). In addition to shipboard landings, ASRD has application to other low visual environments (snow, brown-outs, night, no visible horizon) ashore. The ASRD software will be marketed to rotorcraft multi-function flight display avionics developers in military and commercial markets. The emphasis here will be on those potential markets that operate rotorcraft in harsh environments. The initial target market will be the US military rotorcraft communities, in general, with a focus on the US Navy and the MH-60 R/S platforms. The secondary market for this technology will be US ally nations that operate the MH-60R with the Common Cockpit upgrades (e.g., Australia). Tertiary markets will fall into the military and commercial rotorcraft communities that may incorporate other multi-function display technologies. Specific commercial operators include those that service offshore oil drilling platforms. Example vehicles used for this purpose include the S-92, S-76, AW-139, and Bell 212. These vehicles feature varying MFD capabilities that all may be enhanced with ASRD. Return