A service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. A controller’s primary task is to separate certain aircraft — to prevent them from coming too close to each other by use of lateral, vertical and longitudinal separation. Secondary tasks include ensuring orderly and expeditious flow of traffic and providing information to pilots, such as weather, navigation information and NOTAMs (Notices to Airmen)
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Emerging Applications in Immersive Technologies
Darryl N. Davis (University of Hull, UK) and Paul M. Chapman (University of Hull, UK)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-849-9.ch082
Abstract
The world of Virtual Environments and Immersive Technologies (Sutherland, 1965) (Kalawsky, 1993) are evolving quite rapidly. As the range and complexity of applications increases, so does the requirement for intelligent interaction. The now relatively simple environments of the OZ project (Bates, Loyall & Reilly, 1992) have been superseded by Virtual Theatres (Doyle & Hayes-Roth, 1997) (Giannachi, 2004), Tactical Combat Air (Jones, Tambe, Laird & Rosenbloom, 1993) training prototypes and Air Flight Control Simulators (Wangermann & Stengel, 1998). This article presents a brief summary of present and future technologies and emerging applications that require the use of AI expertise in the area of immersive technologies and virtual environments. The applications are placed within a context of prior research projects.