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Projects

Automation, robotics and autonomy

AUTOPACE (Automation pace) proposes research on a psychological model to quantitatively predict how automation would impact on human performance based on cognitive resources modelling, tasks characteristics (automation) and psychological factors modelling.

TACO (Take control) aims to define an automated system sufficiently powerful to both accomplish complex tasks involved in the management of surface movements in a major airport and self-assess its own ability to deal with non-nominal conditions. When needed, such system should be sensitive enough to transfer responsibilities for traffic management back to the controller, in a timely and graceful manner and in way that makes him/her comfortable with the inherited tasks.

http://www.tacoproject.eu/

AGENT (Adaptive self-Governed aerial ecosystem by negotiated traffic) seeks to implement a new framework extending the functionalities of TCAS to act at pre‐operational and at operational level as a robust collision avoidance system for different context scenarios in which human behaviour and automatism interdependencies will be considered with realistic aircraft performances.
http://www.agent-aero.eu/

STRESS (Human performance neurometrics Toolbox for highly automated systems design) project will explore human performance in highly automated systems, in order to provide new knowledge and guidelines needed for the design and implementation of higher levels of automation, with the related procedures and humans’roles. For doing that, the project will collect technologies and methods already validated in non ATM sectors and apply them in realistic future ATM scenarios.

www.stressproject.eu

MINIMA (Mitigating negative impacts of monitoring high levels of automation) will research new human-automation interaction design concepts.

Complexity, data science and information management

BigData4ATM (Passenger-centric big data sources for socio-economic and behavioural research in ATM) will investigate how ATM and aviation data can be analysed and combined with more traditional demographic, economic and air transport databases to extract relevant information about passengers’ behaviour and use this information to inform ATM decision-making processes.

DART (Data-driven aircraft trajectory prediction research) explores the applicability of data science and complexity science techniques to the ATM domain. It will investigate on the suitability of applying big data techniques for predicting multiple correlated aircraft trajectories based on data driven models and accounting for ATM network complexity effects.
http://dart-research.eu/

MALORCA (Machine learning of speech recognition models for controller assistance) proposes a general, cheap and effective solution to automate re-learning, adaptation and customisation process to new environments, taking advantage of the large amount of speech data available in the ATM world.
http://www.malorca-project.de/

BEST (Achieving the benefits of SWIM by making smart use of semantic technologies) will determine how semantic technologies can be used effectively to maximise the benefits of adopting system-wide information management.

Environment & meteorology

TBO-MET (Meteorological uncertainty management for trajectory-based operations) will address the problem of analysing and quantifying the effects of meteorological uncertainty in Trajectory-based operations (TBO).

ATM4E (Air traffic management for environment) will explore the scope for the potential reduction of air traffic environmental impacts in European airspace on climate, air quality and noise through optimization of air traffic operations.

PNOWWA (Probabilistic nowcasting of winter weather for airports) will produce methods for the probabilistic short-term forecasting of winter weather and enable the assessment of the uncertainty in the ground part of 4D trajectories.

Economics & legal change in ATM

COCTA (Coordinated capacity ordering and trajectory pricing for better-performing ATM) proposes coordinated economic measures aiming to pre-emptively reconcile air traffic demand and airspace capacity. The project primarily aims to reduce the cost arising from lack of coordination in the ATM system, stemming both from divorced planning horizons of ANSPs and aircraft operators (AOs), and from an inadequate pricing of navigation services.
https://cocta.hs-worms.de/cocta-is/about-cocta/

VISTA (Market forces trade-offs impacting European ATM performance) will examine the effects of conflicting market forces on European performance in ATM, through the evaluation of impact metrics on four key stakeholders and the environment.

COMPAIR (Competition for air traffic management) will investigate how to introduce competitive incentives in the ATM sector so as to best contribute to the achievement of the European high-level policy objectives for aviation.

High-performing airport operations

MOTO (the embodied remote tower) will perform research on ATM human performance of using two senses: sight and hearing in the context of remote tower operations. The goal is to enhance human performance, by exploiting other channels than the already overloaded visual channel

RETINA (Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision) project will investigate the potential and applicability of synthetic vision tools and virtual/augmented reality display techniques for the air traffic control service provision by the airport control tower.

http://www.retina-atm.eu/

Separation management and separation standards

SALSA (Satellite-based ADS-B for lower separation minima application) is an exploratory research project relating to multi-source ADS-B system. A multi-source ADS-B system that combines the benefit of all possible type of relays (space, maritime, air or ground based) of ADS-B messages could provide a global surveillance system to overcome the prevailing continuous surveillance constraints in the non-radar airspace (NRA).

R-WAKE (Wake Vortex simulation and analysis to enhance en-route separation management in Europe) aims at developing a simulation framework to assess the risk and hazards of potential wake vortex encounters for the en-route phase of flight.

CNS & enabling infrastructure

NAVISAS (Navigation of airborne vehicle with integrated space and atomic signals) will propose a novel concept of APNT for small aircraft that will integrate novel technologies and will merge multiple navigation avionics into one with no major impact on avionics.

SAPIENT (Satcom and terrestrial architectures improving performance, security and safety in ATM) project addresses a new innovative application in the field of CNS/ATM system focusing exploitation of the synergies of communications and navigation technologies and the 4D trajectory management concept.

Trajectory-based operations (TBO)

OptiFrame (An optimisation framework for trajectory-based operations) will research a number of fundamental questions related to trajectory-based operations (TBO), a key element of future ATM operating concepts.

COPTRA (Combining probable trajectories) aims to propose, in a TBO, an efficient method to build probabilistic traffic forecasts on the basis of flight trajectory predictions.

PARTAKE (Cooperative departures for a competitive ATM networK service.) will propose a causal model to enhance the potential synergies that could be achieved by exploiting to the maximum extend the gap provided by the strategic decision variables and the operational decision making at flight execution.

Innovative ATM architecture

PACAS (Participatory Architectural Change Management in ATM Systems) will model and analyse changes at different layers of the ATM system to support change management, while capturing how architectural and design choices influence the overall system.

ATM performance

INTUIT (Interactive toolset for understanding trade-offs in ATM performance) will explore the potential of visual analytics, machine learning and systems modelling techniques to improve our understanding of the trade-offs between ATM key performance areas.

APACHE (Assessment of performance in current ATM operations and of new Concepts of operations for its holistic enhancement) proposes a new framework to assess European ATM performance based on simulation, optimization and performance assessment tools that will be able to capture complex interdependencies between KPAs at different modelling scales.

AURORA (Advanced user-centric efficiency metrics for air traffic performance analytics) will propose advanced metrics to assess the operational efficiency of the ATM system. These new metrics will be developed with the aim of encapsulating the airspace users’ operational objectives, considering fuel consumption, schedule adherence and cost efficiency of the flights