CSA is an acronym derived from the Portuguese "Consórcio de Simulação Avançada", which stands for Advanced Simulation Consortium.
MISSION
CSA has as an institutional mission to increase shareholder value by advancing the simulation of reality in the field of aviation research, development and training. CSA’s primary goal is to improve the effectiveness of training pilots, aircrews and air traffic controllers throughout the aviation industry including military, civil and commercial applications. CSA achieves these objectives by developing, defining, leveraging, integrating and marketing state-of-the-art virtual reality technologies including all associated hardware and software.
PRODUCT LINE AND APPLICATIONS
The primary activity area of the Consortium is the continued development and commercialization of Cyberball. Cyberball is a totally immersive full-motion simulator featuring haptic response, tactile feedback and sensory stimulation human interfaces to replicate manned and unmanned vehicle operation and movement networked to interact in a virtual environment.
Applications include but are not limited to:
DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES (GENERAL AIM)
Development goals of CSA include:
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Hardware development of fully immersive devices complete with sensory feedback to simulate operation and movement of manned vehicles
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Software development for the control of Mechanical Modules
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Software development to replicate hardware human interfaces and mathematical modeling of many different flight vehicles in a virtual environment
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Software development to replicate hardware human interfaces and mathematical modeling for Air Traffic Control in a virtual environment
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Software development to enhance networked operation of multiple vehicles and control stations interacting and communicating, locally or remotely, via UDP or other network protocol
KEYWORDS
Aircraft and Aviation Related Software
Net Protocol UDP
Virtual Reality
Tactile, Haptic and Sensory Feedback
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)
High Level Architecture (HLA)
Head Mounted Display (HMD)
Air Traffic Control
Full Flight Fidelity
VALUE PROPOSITION
Deliver high fidelity training and other capability not currently available in order to improve training effectiveness. Dramatically decrease costs to train and maintain vehicle operator proficiency utilizing virtual reality technologies.
EXPECTED RESULTS
Cyberball is a single hardware device that is rapidly reconfigurable with physical flight controls and visually immersive head mounted display (HMD) delivering the virtual cockpit and out-the-window environment to simulate all aircraft models at full flight fidelity. Accurate cockpit ergonomics are replicated while the pilot is able to reach out and flip a switch seeing a computer generated representation of his hand and cockpit switch in the virtual world. The pilot feels the switch via tactile feedback gloves. Seat, flight control stick, throttle and pedals are physical.
Development of high technology flight simulators, a knowledge area restricted to a few countries and international companies:
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Provide personnel training to adapt high-fidelity aircraft software applications for use with a special multi-channel tiled head mounted display (HMD) with the purpose of enabling 3-D stereoscopic visualization, eye-point tracking and interaction with cockpit virtual instruments and controls via tactile feedback gloves;
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Provide personnel training to adapt software applications for use with the Cyberball Mechanical Module (limitless platform of movements in the axes x, y and z) through the creation of APIs (Application Program Interface plug-ins).
Training Centers enabled to emulate the interactions between piloted aircraft and air traffic control in airport and other environments networked, locally or remotely (LAN and WAN), via UDP network or other protocols.
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Significantly reduced costs for military, civil and commercial training;
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Seamless air traffic controller training networked in both actual and virtual environments;
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Enhanced technological planning and design capability with the means, tools and technology necessary to design an air space system to meet future requirements.
