Take a look at the nearly completed training simulator expansion, which packs twice as many touchscreen panels for greater system coverage and (perhaps controversially) a forward viewscreen.
Installation of a simulation room is underway which will allow more intensive training and simulation exercises in a bridge layout with up to five stations, as well as the opportunity to try out different physical console configurations and layouts.
With more ship's systems reaching late development, the need for a functional environment in which to test these is becoming apparent. At the current stage this will not require the full bridge.To this end, concepting has begun for a small scale simulator for testing purposes, along with personnel candidate screening, systems familiarisation and training, and crew co-ordination and ship-handling drills. As a secondary aim, this will allow the development team to monitor crew interraction and behavious to help inform design of the full size bridge.
Welcome to 2018! Understandably things have been a little quiet over the holiday period, but in the new year's first activity summary we get our first look at what the crew of Endeavour will look like and another option for what the bridge might look like.
This is high-level design sketch of another possible bridge layout. This concept draws on more traditional Ops Room/Command Centre designs, but has a more integrated approach to including specialist support teams - still acoustically isolated from the main bridge area to an extent, but easily acessible as needed.
I've been having discussions with different teams across the vessel dev program about what they want to see for their area on Endeavour's bridge. I've had a go at reflecting this in a concept layout sketch and I'd appreciate feedback and suggestions.
As control systems for vessel systems are being delivered, some thought needs to be given to the layout and configuration of the vessel's command centre.
The design goal for the command centre is to ensure that the commanding officer has access to the information necessary for command decisions, and that those decisions can then be executed by senior crew.
