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.
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