The Honeywell 360 Display mounted on a standard US military ballistic helmet. (Janes/Jeremiah Cushman)
Honeywell has developed a 360° vision system for vehicle crew members. Janes had the opportunity to test it on 14 October at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference in Washington, DC. The lightweight system is installed on the night-vision goggle mount on a military helmet with individual screens for each eye. The system can be worn comfortably with prescription glasses.
It is designed to enable a person to “operate a vehicle at a high rate of speed without any outside visual reference and do that without making you sick”, Adam Gavrich, senior technical sales manager (avionics) for Honeywell, told Janes. Development focused on “essentially simulating your natural vision and preventing motion sickness when you're operating without outside references”, he explained. It provides additional situational awareness to improve operational safety and effectiveness.
The display is intended for vehicle drivers and crew members and would stay with the vehicle, Gavrich said. If there was a requirement for a gunner to link with a remote weapon station, Honeywell could provide that capability, he added.
The display system is sensor-agnostic and can work with a wide range of cameras and sensors. The demonstration vehicle was equipped with commercially procured cameras, according to Gavrich. Software stitches the images from the cameras together, including images of different resolutions. “Our crisp head tracking allows you to look around as if you were just looking through a portal through the vehicle using all those cameras and sensors,” he said.
Preventing motion sickness
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