The WITAS Project

Valla Campus Test Flights

In the Valla Campus theater, we presently use the following three places:

• The parking-lot in front of the campus G building (which is the building where most of the Linköping WITAS work is located). This parking lot is marked with blue color in the map. Roads go north and west from the south-west corner of this parking lot. In addition, one road goes in east-west direction along its northern side, and continues towards the east.

• The parking-lot behind the administration building, which is called Origo. This parking lot is marked with green color in the map.

• The campus 'southern entrance road', a newly built road segment that starts at a roundabout and leads up to the Origo parking lot. Marked with red color in the map, it is about one kilometer long, traffic on it is sparse during most parts of the day, and there are open fields on both sides along most of it. It has two intersections with dirt roads and one intersection with the road leading east from the G building parking lot. (This road is for buses and authorized vehicles only).

These places allow us to obtain the following recordings from actual flights:

• Elementary traffic maneuvers involving one or a few cars, along the southern entrance road. This includes a car driving along the road, one car overtaking another, and one car yielding to another at an intersection.

• Usual maneuvers in and around a parking lot. Helicopter flights are more easily done beside the Origo parking lot, but marginally possible beside the G building parking lot as well. However, a window at the top of a staircase (3 1/2 floors up) in the G building makes it possible to obtain a helicopter-like perspective without actually needing to fly.

Yellow color in the map marks roads and parking areas around which we are not able to fly. The North direction is marked with an arrow and a letter 'N' in the map, as usual. Here is a rotated, portrait-format map for printout.

Collected recordings

At present we have the following materials from the Valla Campus theater:

• Video recordings from helicopter flights by the southern entrance road

• Video recordings from helicopter flights by the Origo parking lot

• Video recordings from the G building staircase, viewing the parking lot

• Video clips from simulations over the area of the G building parking lot.

The following items on the present menu contain samples from these recordings, as well as short video clips showing how the flights were done. Our project plans call for the successive extension of this body with more material during the present year (2000) as well as following years.

Maintenance information:

Latest update 6.6.2000 by EMTEK group. Edit mode aml, position code D.witas.testenv.valla.