Fly a Drone Safely: Evaluation of an Embodied Egocentric Drone Controller Interf

[electrotor]

And the prize for the longest subject goes to this thread. The box wouldn't accept "ace"
This is an academic paper on the subject of reducing drone accidents by studying different pilot perceptions, those being called egocentric or drone centric. To you and me that is traditional stand-and-watch-the-model piloting or FPV. It's quite heavy reading but may interest one or two people, or maybe just one - me.
Experienced FPV flyers will probably not agree with the conclusion.

http://iwc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/09/10/iwc.iww027.full

[FPVSteve]

I'd agree with the conclusion from the perception of a new FPV flyer for sure - it can be very disconcerting and disorienting for the first few (20?) flights.

Afterwards though and once you're familiar with the area you're flying with and comfortable with your airframe, the way it responds and your knowledge of "what you need to do in order to fly, navigate and land" I'd argue that it's easier to fly from a first person perspective because you no longer (unlike flying LoS) have to "reverse" the controls when flying back towards yourself - there's actually less mental effort involved in flying FPV.

[electrotor]

Two, it seems.

The final paragraph of the Discussion, which immediately precedes the Conclusion rather puts the limitations of the study into perspective.

"Finally, the findings clearly favor the egocentric interface over the traditional drone-centric interface. However, the effect of the egocentric interface might be limited to novices. The possibility that training could minimize the need for mental rotation because experienced pilots could employ the drone-centric perspective was not be examined in the current study because the participants in the current study were all novices. Future studies are recommended to investigate how familiarity or proficiency plays a role in diminishing the misalignment problem."

I think FPV flyers realised that many years ago. Should have come to FPVHUB Messrs Cho, Cho & Jeon.

[Loopdreams]

It's not terribly well written but I don't think it's comparing FPV to LOS.  It's comparing a normal LOS control scheme with another LOS scheme where the controls always function as though the drone were yawed with the tail facing the pilot.

[FPVSteve]

Yea sorry electrotor - just scanned the conclusion and didn't realise they'd written that above it :)

Future studies are recommended to investigate how familiarity or proficiency plays a role in diminishing the misalignment problem.

= can we have some more money :)

[DerbyshireDrones]

I love it when a superposed boffin writes something in such complicated language that only a lawyer could understand it quickly, and then they stick something like this in the middle of the article with the caption "Quadcopter Drone Control Interface"



What is that? It looks like someone in year 8 woodwork was asked to make a Xbox Controller  :rofl:

[electrotor]

I love it when a superposed boffin writes something in such complicated language that only a lawyer could understand it quickly, and then they stick something like this in the middle of the article with the caption "Quadcopter Drone Control Interface"



What is that? It looks like someone in year 8 woodwork was asked to make a Xbox Controller  :rofl:

I did think that the dubiously learned authors of the article lacked the necessary familiarity with the nuts & bolts of drone flying. Very early in the text I wondered if they were actually aware of FPV.