Att 9 OT-22-20033 VSER.pdf

Data Item Description

Title: VISUAL SYSTEM ENGINEERING REPORT (VSER)

Number: OT-22-20033 Approval Date: 20220623 AMSC Number: N/A Limitation: N6134022R0030 DTIC Applicable: No GIDEP Applicable: No Preparing Activity: AS/PMA276 Project Number: DKC 23 JUN 2022 Applicable Forms: N/A

Use/relationship: The Visual System Engineering Report (VSER) provides a detailed description of the design of the overall visual system (VS), including display system configuration, video transmission, performance, lens data, automatic alignment system, sensor tracking and real-time system optimizations. The VSER is used to document the design and performance of the VS.

This DID contains the format, content, and intended use information for the data product resulting from the work task described in the contract SOW.

This DID is for one-time use for solicitation N6134022R0030.

Requirements:

1. Reference documents. The applicable issue of the documents cited herein, including their approval dates and dates of any applicable amendments, notices, and revisions, shall be as specified in the contract.

2. Format. Contractor format is acceptable while the document outline shall follow Section 3.5.

3. Content. The VSER shall include the following sections and content:

3.1. Title page

3.1.1. Document number;

3.1.2. Version/revision indicator;

3.1.3. Security markings or other restrictions on the handling of the document;

3.1.4. Date;

3.1.5. Document title;

3.1.6. Name, abbreviation, and any other identifier for the systems, subsystems, or items to which the document applies;

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3.1.7. Contract number;

3.1.8. CDRL data item number;

3.1.9. Organization for which the document has been prepared;

3.1.10. Name and address of the preparing organization;

3.1.11. Distribution statement; and

3.1.12. Signature blocks for the developer representative authorized to release the document, the acquirer representative authorized to approve the document, and the dates of release/approval.

3.2. Revision history page.

3.3. Table of Contents and List of Figures.

3.4. Acronym list.

3.5. Document detail.

3.5.1. Display system configuration.

3.5.1.1. Detailed list of display system of hardware configuration components and interfaces including identification of make and model and product specifications.

3.5.1.2. Visual system functional block diagram showing all components with labels identifying their names and denoting the functions they perform and all interfaces with labels identifying their characteristics and the parameters and type of data they transfer.

3.5.1.3. Engineering drawings of overall display system configuration.

3.5.1.3.1. Top, side, rear, and front views with dimensions showing the relative location and orientation of display components and eyepoints, including screen center, and all eyepoint locations relative to both easily-referenced vertical and horizontal surfaces, as well as the cockpit floor beneath the seat(s).

3.5.1.3.2. Relative location of components as either measured or constructed.

3.5.1.3.3. Relative angles of projector, screen surface, and eyepoint, including depiction of the field-of-view.

3.5.2. Video transmission.

3.5.2.1. Illustrate the transmission of digital video data through the various subsystems and reference vendor information and test data that supports subsystem interconnection compatibility.

3.5.3. Visual channel performance.

3.5.3.1. Describe and illustrate all performance parameters below to a precision of no less than nine zones per visual channel as seen from each specified eyepoint. State all assumptions (e.g., system MTF).

3.5.3.1.1. Luminance.

3.5.3.1.2. Contrast ratio.

3.5.3.1.3. Surface static and dynamic resolution.

3.5.3.1.4. Geometric accuracy.

3.5.3.1.5. Collimation (if any).

3.5.4. Image warping.

3.5.4.1. List all image warping adjustment parameters.

3.5.4.2. Discuss the adjustment range of all image-warping parameters. Identify any adjustment parameter predicted to be near its limit. Describe user interfaces for image warping from a human factors standpoint including identification of any controls that require the operator to re-interpret adjustment range and direction (e.g., a labeled vertical control is really a horizontal control).

3.5.5. Panel utilization.

3.5.5.1. Describe and illustrate the mapping of the digital projector device native display to the modeled screen surface, including ratio of used/unused pixels, raster/active video shape and panel coverage, and the width and shape of adjacent channel overlap regions. An illustration of each channel's projector display (represented as a flat screen) shall be provided that integrates all of this "pixel usage and efficiency" information as overlays.

3.5.6. Lens data.

3.5.6.1. Report lens data including manufacturer and model, MTF performance limit, lens composition material, and list any available lens application tools.

3.5.7. System geometry alignment.

3.5.7.1. Describe and illustrate the performance and operation of any proposed reference system for geometry alignment and auto-alignment system (if any). Predicted stability of any reference system against variables including but not limited to temperature, static air pressure, vibration, and shock shall be discussed. Identify and describe features and processes designed to maintain and reestablish the alignment of the display system auto-alignment components.

3.5.8. Display system horizontal (i.e., azimuth) origin.

3.5.8.1. Discuss the location of the display system horizontal or azimuth origin, references and marks on the trainer and trainee station(s) for the horizontal origin, and processes for determining, verifying, and reestablishing the horizontal origin for each eye point.

3.5.8.2. Identify applicable trainer documentation in which azimuth origin-establishing method and procedures are documented.

3.5.9. Sensor trackers (if any).

3.5.9.1. Discuss VS functions, processes and hardware configuration items and components allocated to sensor tracking simulation. Identify allocation and balancing of tracker functions across VS and the host trainer. Identify whether tracking functions are performed using image processing or known system data about the location of simulated targets and players and describe the particular techniques and processes involved in tracking. Identify and describe design provisions and processes that ensure the performance of simulator tracking systems does not exceed that of the tracking systems in the actual aircraft.

3.5.10. Real-time system adjustments.

3.5.10.1. Identify and describe image generator and display system/device real-time automatic reconfigurations and adjustments used by the system to optimize the quality of the visual image for the current scene conditions.

3.5.10.1.1. Identify the specific performance and control parameters adjusted in real time to achieve the intended optimizations.

3.5.10.1.2. Identify systems and components involved in effecting real-time adjustments, the functions allocated to them, and describe the real-time modifications to simulation models and parameters and their intended purposes. Identify functions reallocated in real time to different systems/subsystems.

3.5.10.1.3. Identify the source, timing and synchronization of control signals to effect real-time changes and the conditions that trigger each specific change.

3.5.10.1.4. Identify and describe system features designed to eliminate or minimize discernible transitional artifacts caused by real-time changes.

3.5.11. Test Results.

3.5.11.1. List per-channel performance parameters and system-wide performance parameters.

3.5.11.2. Identify predicted performance.

3.5.11.3. Identify actual measured/demonstrated performance.

3.5.12. References (if any).

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