A simulator study of the control of lunar flying platforms by pilot body motions

"L-7304."

"NASA TN D-6016."

"December 1970."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 33).

"This paper presents the results of an investigation of body-motion control of lunar-flying-platform configurations utilizing shirt-sleeved operators and a simulator with five degrees of freedom. The results show that lunar vehicles with moments of inertia up to 100 slug-ft² (136 kg-m²) in pitch and 300 or 400 slug-ft² (407 of 542 kg-m²) in roll should have satisfactory control qualities. The separation of the vehicle operator and thrusts jets from the high-inertia vehicle elements by means of a low inertia auxiliary platform resulted in satisfactory control in both pitch and roll over the range of equivalent lunar moments of inertia of 33 to 400 slug-ft² (45 to 542 kg-m²). A description of a number of useful variations of body-motion control is presented." --P. [i].

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Sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); performed by the NASA Langley Research Center under work unit no. 127-51-41-05.