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WP2 – CABIN LAYOUT
Predefinition of an augmented reality helmet with human-
machine interface for use in MSV
(WP2 – Cabin layout)
Jérémy BAIN – Jean-Charles BERNARD – Matthieu MAUREL – Maxime THIERRY – Jonathan WIRTZ
ISAE, formation ENSICA – Toulouse
This Yuri Gagarin’s first orbital flight and the
following space missions inspired many
earthlings their dream to fly to the stars.
This dream used to be inaccessible. It is
now within easy reach thanks to the spread
of space tourism and the study of suborbital
vehicles. This is what the Student
Aerospace Challenge is all about. It invites
student teams to work on specific design
points of the making of such vehicles.
This is why we wished to enter the
Challenge, which for the second years
among us is done in the context of an
academic research project. We started from
an idea we had and focused our work on
predefining an augmented reality helmet,
featuring a watch-like human-machine
interface, to be used in the context of the
Manned Suborbital Vehicle (MSV). We
started from scratch and carried out a
system engineering study to determine what
the systems would look like without
forgetting what is specific about such a
mission.
We were able to identify three categories of
passengers: the pilot, the actual MSV
passenger, and an earthly passenger. The
latter is quite specific a passenger. Indeed,
this kind of passenger would not be on
board but should be fully immersed in the
mission. We then identified what was
specific about each category, and carried
out surveys to help us understand their
expectations.
Having done this, the system engineering
study we carried out enabled us to
determine what the system we wanted to
define should be able to do exactly.
We subsequently got interested in the latest
developments, in order to properly manage
all these functions. However, we kept in
mind that each passenger, as well as the
mission itself, brings a lot of constraints and
special features. This enlightened a simple
fact. There is no current system we could
completely adapt to the MSV.
Thanks to this, we could predefine and
suggest a system which would be taking
into account both the passenger’s needs
and the suborbital mission’s specifics,
ergonomic issues for instance.