Head-up display system for closed circuit rebreathers with antimagnetic wireless data transmissionShow others and affiliations
2013 (English)In: Marine Technology Society journal, ISSN 0025-3324, E-ISSN 1948-1209, Vol. 47, no 6, p. 42-51Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Rebreather divers use LED-based head-up displays (HUD) as a primary display and warning device for the partial pressure of O2 in the breathing loop. Such devices are usually mounted on the mouthpiece of the rebreather in the field of vision of the diver. LED-based HUDs are simple devices and can be designed so that they are easy to understand but have limited information content. Few alphanumeric or graphical screen-based HUDs have been developed in the past. Connecting such a device to a rebreather requires cable links, which divers dislike, and increases the risk of entanglement. State-of-the-art wireless data transmission uses ultrasonic waves or lowfrequency electromagnetic waves; the former is not silent, and the latter achieves only very low data transmission rates of a few bytes per second and does not meet the antimagnetic standards required by military divers. The present paper describes a novel HUD system that incorporates a simple LED-based primary HUD along with an advanced secondary head-up diving computer with a micro organic LED screen. An optical infrared data transmission system is used to transmit all rebreather relevant data fromthe primary to the secondary device. One prototype of the system was manufactured and successfully tested in the laboratory according to relevant European standards as well as during several dives in fresh and sea water.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Marine Technology Society Inc. , 2013. Vol. 47, no 6, p. 42-51
Keywords [en]
Head-up display, Near eye display rebreather, Wireless underwater data transmission, Data communication systems, Display devices, Electromagnetic waves, Data transmission rates, Head up displays, Head-up display systems, Limited information, Low-frequency electromagnetic waves, Transmission systems, Wireless data transmission, Light emitting diodes, cable, control system, data transmission, diving, electromagnetic wave, European Union, numerical model, oxygen, partial pressure, respiration, visibility
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-47576DOI: 10.4031/MTSJ.47.6.6Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84907362295OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-47576DiVA, id: diva2:1463517
2020-09-022020-09-022020-12-01Bibliographically approved