Construction equipment such as wheel loaders and dumpers are constantly getting updated with new technology when it comes to performance and fuel consumption. But the interior in the cockpit has not been exposed to any dramatic changes for decades. A modernized cockpit gives the driver a more modern feel of driving a highly technological machine, while at the same time enables for personalization. This thesis work presents a new way of improving the look and feel for displaying relevant information and also relaying information to both the driver of the machine and spectators outside. It includes a way of rerouting CAN-bus signals from a construction machine and displaying it on a tablet. The core idea with the solution is to make it as modular as possible to further improve and be able to use it in any machine available at Volvo's disposal. With this in mind, any machine could use the same software, the same hardware and still be able to fully utilize all the features that have been implemented from the thesis work. The idea and implementational results are designed as partly embedded and partly towards user interface.

<p>Today’s automobile cockpit is filled with different buttons and screen-based displays giving input and relaying information in a complex human-machine system. Following in the footsteps of the early 1970s flight industry, this thesis work focused on creating a complete glass cockpit concept in the automobile.</p><p>Our automobile glass cockpit consists of three displays. A touch screen based centre console with an interface that we took part in creating during the spring of 2006. Parallel to this ongoing master thesis, a head-up display was installed by a group of students and we had the opportunity of giving input regarding the design of the graphical interface.</p><p>The third display, a LCD, replaces the main instruments displaying speed, RPM, fuel level, engine temperature etc. Together with ideas on an extended allocation of functions to the area on and around the steering wheel, creating a dynamic mode based interface replacing today’s static main instruments was the focus of this project.</p><p>After conducting a thorough theoretical study, a large number of ideas were put to the test and incorporated in concept sketches. Paper sketches ranging from detailed features to all-embracing concepts combined with interviews and brainstorming sessions converged into a number of computer sketches made in an image processing software. The computer sketches was easily displayed in the cockpit environment and instantly evaluated. Some parts were discarded and some incorporated in new, modified, ideas leading to a final concept solution.</p><p>After the design part was concluded, the new graphical interface was given functionality with the help of a programming software. As was the case with the computer sketches, the functionality of the interface could be quickly evaluated and modified. With the help of a custom-made application our interface could be integrated with the simulator software and fully implemented in the automobile cockpit at the university simulator facilities.</p><p>Using a custom made scenario, the interface underwent a minor, informal evaluation. A number of potential users were invited to the VR-laboratory and introduced to the new concept. After driving a pre-determined route and familiarizing themselves with the interface, their thoughts on screen-based solutions in general and the interface itself was gathered. In addition, we ourselves performed an evaluation of the interface based on the theoretical study.</p>

Today’s automobile cockpit is filled with different buttons and screen-based displays giving input and relaying information in a complex human-machine system. Following in the footsteps of the early 1970s flight industry, this thesis work focused on creating a complete glass cockpit concept in the automobile. Our automobile glass cockpit consists of three displays. A touch screen based centre console with an interface that we took part in creating during the spring of 2006. Parallel to this ongoing master thesis, a head-up display was installed by a group of students and we had the opportunity of giving input regarding the design of the graphical interface. The third display, a LCD, replaces the main instruments displaying speed, RPM, fuel level, engine temperature etc. Together with ideas on an extended allocation of functions to the area on and around the steering wheel, creating a dynamic mode based interface replacing today’s static main instruments was the focus of this project. After conducting a thorough theoretical study, a large number of ideas were put to the test and incorporated in concept sketches. Paper sketches ranging from detailed features to all-embracing concepts combined with interviews and brainstorming sessions converged into a number of computer sketches made in an image processing software. The computer sketches was easily displayed in the cockpit environment and instantly evaluated. Some parts were discarded and some incorporated in new, modified, ideas leading to a final concept solution. After the design part was concluded, the new graphical interface was given functionality with the help of a programming software. As was the case with the computer sketches, the functionality of the interface could be quickly evaluated and modified. With the help of a custom-made application our interface could be integrated with the simulator software and fully implemented in the automobile cockpit at the university simulator facilities. Using a custom made scenario, the interface underwent a minor, informal evaluation. A number of potential users were invited to the VR-laboratory and introduced to the new concept. After driving a pre-determined route and familiarizing themselves with the interface, their thoughts on screen-based solutions in general and the interface itself was gathered. In addition, we ourselves performed an evaluation of the interface based on the theoretical study.

With the advances in technology, clutter of mechanical indicators in the aircraft cockpit is replaced with digital displays. This revolution does not make only visual changes, but also changes the use of the cockpit design. Cockpit automation has changed cockpit design philosophy with many promised benefits such as improvements in the precision, improved system safety, efficiency of operations, less workload etc. However, to achieve perfect design has not been fulfilled yet. Despite providing innovation and easiness, cockpit automation brings about some &ldquo / Human Factors&rdquo / problems because of lack of support of human-machine interaction and cooperation. In this study, advantages and disadvantages of the cockpit automation will be discussed according to a survey that is conducted to pilots who fly with automated cockpits in Turkey about how automation affects them. The main purpose of this study is to contribute to the modifications of current cockpit systems and development of new design philosophy for advanced flight decks by gathering data from pilots&#039 / attitudes on cockpit automation philosophy.

This master thesis includes a comprehensive review of four-seater sport and leisure aircraft with focus on their cockpit instruments. The description of the selected glass cockpits is listed. Thesis also includes design of instrument panel, which is designed according to the relevant regulations and standard configuration of existing aircrafts. There is also a brief overview of the regulations necessary for the installation of these systems in the aircrafts. At the end of the this work is failure mode and effects analysis, with calculation of probability malfunction for critical functions.

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This master thesis covers with the modern architecture of avionics system for EASA CS-23 AIRPL. The thesis contains EASA CS-23 and EU-OPS analysis and market analysis of avionics systems for this category of aircrafts. The thesis also includes the design of avionics system architecture and its safety and reliability assessment – used tool is Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA). At the end of the thesis there is assesment of potential attack of the avionics system by third part.

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Se presenta una propuesta de diseño de cabina de pilotaje de aviones cuyo objetivo es ayudar la adaptación de los pilotos al pilotaje de los aviones de pasajeros de tipo glass-cockpit. Se acompaña esta propuesta de una descripción de conjunto de la relación piloto-avión tal como evoluciona desde que el piloto aprende a pilotar la primera avioneta de escuela hasta que aborda los aviones de transporte de pasajeros. Esta descripción abarca elementos cognitivos y afectivo-emocionales de la relación persona-máquina.Para realizar esta propuesta se efectúa en primer lugar una búsqueda de información que incluye a la vez fuentes escritas y fuentes orales. Las fuentes de información escritas son estudios del glass-cockpit realizados desde la ergonomía, la psicología cognitiva y la socio-antropología, y textos escritos por un constructor de glass-cockpit y por pilotos. Las fuentes orales son entrevistas a ergónomos que estudian el glass-cockpit, pilotos de glass-cockpit y médicos de pilotos de glass-cockpit.En segundo lugar, se realizan: - entrevistas cualitativas en profundidad a pilotos- acompañamiento y observación de estos pilotos a bordo, durante vuelos- ejercicios de dibujo: se solicita a los pilotos que indiquen, en una reconstitución gráfica de la cabina, en qué partes de la cabina (en qué instrumentos, mandos, zonas...) sienten ruido, vibración, sensación de movimiento, sensación de control, sensación de placer y de tensión.Se realizan estas indagaciones en pilotos situados en distintos momentos de su recorrido profesional (desde el aprendizaje inicial en escuela de pilotaje hasta el trabajo cotidiano en glass-cockpit de compañías aéreas) ya que el glass-cockpit no es el primer avión del piloto: este aparato será pilotado respecto a un 'pasado' hecho de otros aviones, pasado que influirá tanto a nivel cognitivo como emocional. Importa por tanto conocer este pasado para tener una visión más completa de la relación global piloto-avión. Las indagaciones efectuadas permiten saber en qué consiste aprender a pilotar un avión, y la importancia de su control; se obtiene también una visión preliminar del conjunto de las exigencias cognitivas y emocionales relacionadas con el pilotaje. En base a los datos recogidos, se elabora una propuesta de diseño de cabina de pilotaje con propuestas alternativas para todos aquellos elementos del glass-cockpit que han recibido comentarios negativos en las entrevistas y en la literatura. Se presenta esta propuesta a pilotos de glass-cockpit para su evaluación. Es percibida como una herramienta de formación para hacer que el paso entre las avionetas bimotor (de escuela, o de las primeras experiencias profesionales) y los glass-cockpit resulte menos difícil para los pilotos. El diseño propuesto se podría instalar en las avionetas bimotor, o reproducir en simuladores de formación. / A cockpit layout aimed at helping pilots' adaptation to glass-cockpit airliners is presented, as well as a description of the pilot-aircraft relationship as it evolves since the first single-propeller aircraft used at the beginning of flight training, up to glass-cockpits flown in airlines. The description shows cognitive and affective elements of the person-machine relationship.To realize the layout and the description an information search was fulfilled. Its first step involved the gathering of written and oral data. Written data consulted were the ergonomic, psychologic and socio-anthropologic existing analysis of glass-cockpits, as well as texts made by a glass-cockpit builder and by pilots. Oral data was derived from interviews made to ergonomists studying glass-cockpits, glass-cockpit pilots, and physicians of glass-cockpit pilots.The second step of information gathering involved:- qualitative interviews to pilots- accompanying the interviewed pilots on board aircraft- the realization of specific drawings: the pilots were asked to show, in a graphic representation of the cockpit, where (in which instruments, controls, zones...) they felt noise, vibration, the feeling of movement, the feeling of control, pleasure, and stress.These inquiries were made with pilots placed at different moments of a professional career (students flying single-propeller training aircraft, intermediates flying twin propellers, and full professional pilots flying classic jetliners and glass-cockpits). As glass-cockpits are not the first airplanes flown in a career, they will be used under the cognitive and affective influence of a 'past' made of several airplanes. It was thus important to know this past in order to derive a fuller vision of the pilot-aircraft relationship.The information gathered enabled to better describe what implies learning to fly and the importance of controlling an aircraft, both from a cognitive and an affective point of view. A cockpit layout was designed, featuring alternative designs for all those glass-cockpit elements that received negative feedback in the interviews and in the literature. The proposed layout was assessed by glass-cockpit pilots. They saw it as a training tool to lessen the complexity gap that the pilots have to overcome when transitioning, in their careers, from twin propeller aircraft to glass-cockpits. This layout could in the future be fitted to propeller aircraft used for training or could be reproduced in flight training simulators.

This thesis is analysing the historical evolution of flight instruments and aims at the design of a new, enhanced cockpit that includes basic flight instruments supplemented by data from selected aircraft subsystems. The design is based on currently available electronic instruments, known as EFIS, presently used onboard Boeing 737-800 cockpit. The proposed design aims at improvements to graphic style of EFIS, and accomodation of new data into newly designed displays. As a result of this effort, a set of design concepts is created. Those are then implemented as fully functional set of displays using custom made user interface system design tool.