Elbit America recently unveiled its X-Sight helmet display (HMD) system to a customer in Huntsville, Alabama, showing how the Bugeye visor can provide a helicopter pilot’s tactical display and 360-degree supervision.
HMDs for helicopter pilots are nothing new, but they tend to be heavy, difficult to wear, and have limited functionality. Building on the HMD Elbit built for his F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, X-Sight brings the same kind of enhanced visual capabilities to helicopter pilots, replacing cockpit displays with We aim to let you focus on your mission instead of watching. .
The X-Sight visor, which looks like a pair of insect eyes, fits over a standard helmet and captures a full range of images from externally mounted cameras, sensors, radar, lidar, databases, neural networks, and other sources. Data is fed at speed and latency is greatly reduced. The helmet offers the pilot her 360-degree vision with wide viewing angles, allowing her to see well through darkness, fog, rain, snow, and sandstorms, so that she can simply deal with such hazards. It can also be used tactically without advantage.
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Additionally, the pilot’s field of view is overlaid with a constantly updating data stream of both flight conditions and the outside world, appearing simultaneously to both eyes for added realism. The system can identify friendly and enemy positions and return to a downed pilot’s position without distracting the helicopter pilot and wasting precious seconds.
According to the company, the X-Sight is tuned for tactical low-altitude flight, is compatible with the AH-64E Apache attack helicopter and the U.S. Army’s future vertical lift (FVL) platform, and has the system’s very large Market is open. .
Matthew Boyer, artificial intelligence engineering manager at Elbit America, said: “Our goal is to seamlessly blend these elements together to provide pilots with as much information as possible while reducing their workload.”
Source: Elbit America
