4D Conformal Pilot Cueing for Rotorcraft Army Operational Scenarios

Army rotorcraft operations demand precision and adaptability to navigate challenging terrain, respond to real-time mission requirements, and ensure time-to-target arrival. Navigating complex terrain, making real-time trajectory adjustments, and ensuring timely arrival at designated objectives while considering other problems are challenging. This paper focuses on the concept of 4D conformal pilot cueing that can facilitate a significant reduction in pilot workload. To enhance the rotorcraft operations with Army scenarios, a visual cueing method based on Tau Theory for obstacle avoidance is proposed so that the pilot can make a coordinated turn away from the obstacle and safely change the helicopter's trajectory to avoid the collision. To demonstrate the visual cueing method, desktop simulations are performed in Matlab/Simulink environment using simulated pilots.