Progress in the development of a cold background flight motion simulator mounted infrared scene projector for use in the AMRDEC hardware-in-the-loop facilities

Thomas M. Cantey; D. Brett Beasley; Matt Bender; Tim Messer; Daniel A. Saylor; Jim Buford Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.604376

20 May 2005 Progress in the development of a cold background flight motion simulator mounted infrared scene projector for use in the AMRDEC hardware-in-the-loop facilities

Thomas M. Cantey, D. Brett Beasley, Matt Bender, Tim Messer, Daniel A. Saylor, Jim Buford Jr.

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Proceedings Volume 5785, Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing X; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.604376
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper will present the progress on AMRDEC's development of a cold background, flight motion simulator (FMS) mountable, emitter array based projector for use in hardware-in-the-loop systems simulation. The goal for this development is the ability to simulate realistic low temperature backgrounds for windowed/domed seekers operating in tactical and exo-atmospheric simulations. The projector has been developed to operate at -10 degrees Celsius in order to reduce the apparent background temperature presented to the sensor under test. The projector system includes a low temperature operated Honeywell BRITE II emitter array, refractive optical system with zoom optics, integrated steerable point source and high-frequency jitter mirror contained within an FMS-mountable environmental chamber. This system provides a full-FOV cold background, two-dimensional dynamic IR scene projection, a high dynamic range independently steerable point source and combined optical path high frequency jitter control. The projector is designed to be compatible with operation on a 5 axis electric motor driven Carco flight motion simulator.

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Thomas M. Cantey, D. Brett Beasley, Matt Bender, Tim Messer, Daniel A. Saylor, and Jim Buford Jr. "Progress in the development of a cold background flight motion simulator mounted infrared scene projector for use in the AMRDEC hardware-in-the-loop facilities", Proc. SPIE 5785, Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing X, (20 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.604376

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