Barbara Townsend Sweet

Biography

Barbara T. Sweet is an aerospace engineer in the Human Information Management Research Branch (IHH) at NASA Ames Research Center. Since joining NASA in 1984, she has worked in helicopter handling-qualities research, simulation facility development and management, and human-factors research. Her current research activity includes the development of manual control models which account for perspective scene viewing. She is also a pilot, with commercial ratings in both airplanes and helicopters, and flight instructor and instrument flight instructor ratings in airplanes.

Education:

Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 1999

MSAAE, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Purdue University, 1988

BSAAE, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Purdue University, 1981

AAS, General Flight Technology, Purdue University, 1981

Pointers

Email:

: bsweet@mail.arc.nasa.gov

Address:

: Mail Stop 262-2; NASA Ames Research Center; Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000

Phone:

: (650) 604-0006; (650) 604-0255 (FAX)

Selected Publications

W. Chung, B. T. Sweet, and M. K. Kaiser (2003). Visual Cueing Effects Investigation for a Hovering Task. Paper 2003-5524, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Conference, Austin, TX.
A. B. Oving and B. T. Sweet (2003). Visual Cues for closed-loop manual control of pitch. TNO TM-03-B013.
Sweet, Barbara T., Kaiser, Mary K. and Davis, Wendy (2002). Modeling of Depth Cue Integration in Manual Control Tasks. NASA/TM-2002-211407. Schroeder, J.A., Dearing, M.G., Sweet, B.T., Kaiser, M.K., and Atencio, Jr., A. A. (2001). Runway Texture and Grid Pattern Effects on Rate-of-Descent Perception, Paper 2001-4307, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Dearing, M.G., Schroeder, J.A., Sweet, B.T., and Kaiser, M.K. (2001). Effects of Visual Texture, Grids, and Platform Motion on Unpowered Helicopter Landings, Paper 2001-4251, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Sweet, Barbara Townsend (1999), "The identification and modeling of visual cue usage in manual control task experiments", NASA/TM-1999-208798, September 1999.
Sweet, Barbara Townsend (1999), "The identification and modeling of visual cue usage in manual control task experiments", Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University.
Sweet, B. T. and Tiana, C. (1996), "Image processing and fusion for landing guidance." Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 1996. SPIE Vol. 2736. (Conference Paper - English)
Foyle, David C.; Ahumada, Albert J.; Larimer, James; Sweet, Barbara Townsend (1992) "Enhanced/synthetic vision systems. Human factors research and implications for future systems." AEROTECH '92. Held: Anaheim, CA, USA, Oct. 5-8, 1992. SAE Technical Paper Series. Publ by SAE, Warrendale, PA, USA, 921968. p 1-8. (Conference Paper - English)
Larimer, J.; Pavel, M.; Ahumada, A.; Sweet, B. (1992) "Engineering a visual system for seeing through fog." 22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS. Held: Seattle, WA, USA, July 13-16, 1992. SAE Technical Paper Series. Publ by SAE, Warrendale, PA, USA, 921130. p 1-5. (Conference Paper - English)
Townsend, Barbara K. (1987) "Application of quadratic optimal cooperative control synthesis to a ch-47 helicopter." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HELICOPTER SOCIETY - J Am Helicopter Soc v 32 n 1 Jan 1987 p 33-44. (Journal Article - English)