This paper investigates applications of eye tracking in transport aircraft design evaluations. Piloted simulations were conducted for a complete flight profile including take off, cruise and landing flight scenario using the transport aircraft flight simulator at CSIR National Aerospace Laboratories. Thirty-one simulation experiments were carried out with three pilots and engineers while recording the ocular parameters and the flight data. Simulations were repeated for high workload conditions like flying with degraded visibility and during stall. Pilots visual scan behaviour and workload levels were analysed using ocular parameters; while comparing with the statistical deviations from the desired flight path. Conditions for fatigue were also recreated through long duration simulations and signatures for the same from the ocular parameters were assessed. Results from the study found correlation between the statistical inferences obtained from the ocular parameters with those obtained from the flight path deviations. The paper also demonstrates an evaluators console that assists the designers or evaluators for better understanding of pilots attentional resource allocation.

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使用眼动仪评估驾驶舱设计——飞行模拟研究

本文研究了眼动追踪在运输机设计评估中的应用。使用 CSIR 国家航空航天实验室的运输机飞行模拟器对包括起飞、巡航和着陆飞行场景在内的完整飞行剖面进行了试飞模拟。在记录目视参数和飞行数据的同时，由三名飞行员和工程师进行了三十一次模拟实验。在高工作负载条件下重复模拟，例如在能见度下降和失速期间飞行。飞行员的视觉扫描行为和工作负荷水平使用视觉参数进行分析；同时与期望飞行路径的统计偏差进行比较。疲劳条件也通过长时间模拟重新创建，并评估了来自眼部参数的相同特征。研究结果发现从眼部参数获得的统计推断与从飞行路径偏差获得的统计推断之间存在相关性。该论文还展示了一个评估者控制台，可帮助设计者或评估者更好地了解飞行员的注意力资源分配。