The German Aerospace Congress is organised annually by DGLR, the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics. This year it took place at the Eurogress Conference Centre in Aachen, Germany, from September 8 to 10, 2009.
On the second day of the conference, DLR presented the AT-One paper on Virtual Block Control and Separation Bubbles. In contrast to the paper presented at ICNS 2009 in Arlington, this paper had a focus on evaluation of the concepts in cockpit simulator trials.
The conference sessions were generally set up with a broad range of topics so that there were not too many presentations directly focussing on ATM. Some of the presentations were mere descriptions of work approaches and used facilities, but they were nonetheless interesting. The sessions I attended described new approaches to avionics and control systems, especially for small private aircraft, knowledge management, simulator development, data analysis, and last but not least ATM.
A very interesting presentation from one of my AT-One colleagues described a revolutionary approach to controlling aircraft, referred to as sectorless ATM. In that scenario several tactical controllers share one giant airspace sector and control or rather guide a number of aircraft (between 3 to 8) through that sector. Although the concept still has some weaker points (controller communication, priority rules) it is an interesting starting point for innovative research in that area.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
ICNS 2009 - Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference
In May this year I attended the ICNS conference that took place in Arlington, Virginia. It was organised by IEEE/AESS together with AIAA/DATC, the FAA, the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) and NASA at the Crystal City hotel district.
The main topic of the conference was NextGen, of course. One of the opening presentations had a look at the 2009 NextGen Implementation Plan, which can be found here. The plan currently acts as communication medium between the FAA and the aviation community on NextGen equipage thereby answering the requirements set by the national airspace system (NAS) enterprise architecture (EA). Such dialogue will be critical for achieving benefits and return on investment for both the community and the government. The document tries to answer what NextGen will look like in the mid-term from 2012 to 2018, what benefits it will deliver, what the aircraft avionics equipage needs are through 2018, what FAA is committed to deploy in the near-term and what activities are underway to support future capabilities.
The conference agenda was composed of plenary sessions that were set-up like theatre play type of interviews with a certain panel at centre stage. The sessions addressed the three main topics of the conference, namely NextGen, Net-centric Operations, and Trajectory Based Operations (TBO).
NLR presented the results of their project on Virtual Block Control and Separation Bubbles. For the complete programme and the paper presentations, the ICNS website can be consulted.
The main topic of the conference was NextGen, of course. One of the opening presentations had a look at the 2009 NextGen Implementation Plan, which can be found here. The plan currently acts as communication medium between the FAA and the aviation community on NextGen equipage thereby answering the requirements set by the national airspace system (NAS) enterprise architecture (EA). Such dialogue will be critical for achieving benefits and return on investment for both the community and the government. The document tries to answer what NextGen will look like in the mid-term from 2012 to 2018, what benefits it will deliver, what the aircraft avionics equipage needs are through 2018, what FAA is committed to deploy in the near-term and what activities are underway to support future capabilities.
The conference agenda was composed of plenary sessions that were set-up like theatre play type of interviews with a certain panel at centre stage. The sessions addressed the three main topics of the conference, namely NextGen, Net-centric Operations, and Trajectory Based Operations (TBO).
NLR presented the results of their project on Virtual Block Control and Separation Bubbles. For the complete programme and the paper presentations, the ICNS website can be consulted.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Barcelona
The inspiring city of Gaudi: a vibrant, self-centred metropolis right on the Mediterranean Sea. This week the European-US ATM R&D conference was held in the direct neighbourhood of las Ramblas, Barcelona's amusement strip crowded day and night with its endless streams of tourists.
The conference featured many interesting ATM research results. These came from the areas of Innovative Research, Performance Management, Safety, Airport Management, Airspace Management, Human Factors, Environment, Air-Ground Integration, Network Management, and the new category of Finance and Deployment.
In the concluding session it was noted that much of what was presented concerned research on already existing concepts and technologies, which could be a sign of rather market-driven R&D. Nevertheless, about a third of the papers looked at innovative ideas generated on the basis of the needs of SESAR and NextGen, the European-US future air transportation system initiatives calling for major changes in the current ATM system to cope with future demand.
Plenary discussions following the concluding remarks of Eurocontrol and the FAA discussed the reasons for the current focus of ATM research on more market-driven topics and whether a more integrated approach between the US and Europe was possible despite the somewhat different kind of innovation needs in both regions of the world. Certainly, knowledge and awareness of what has been done in recent years on both sides of the Atlantic was considered desirable. The conference helped to promote the issue, however, this was not really reflected in the papers. Therefore, future research activities should also highlight common achievements, also for the sake of harmonising the approaches for solving the imminent problems in air traffic congestion in both systems.
The paper on Resolution Advisory Downlink that was written by Stan Drozdowski and Doris Dehn from Eurocontrol together with Bernd Lorenz and myself won the best paper award in the ATM safety conference track. The best conference paper award was attributed to a paper on an analysis method for new ATM concepts being applied to a multi-sector planner in US airspace. It was written by Kevin Corker, Paul Lee, and Tom Prevot from San Jose State University together with Diana Liang from the FAA.
The conference featured many interesting ATM research results. These came from the areas of Innovative Research, Performance Management, Safety, Airport Management, Airspace Management, Human Factors, Environment, Air-Ground Integration, Network Management, and the new category of Finance and Deployment.
In the concluding session it was noted that much of what was presented concerned research on already existing concepts and technologies, which could be a sign of rather market-driven R&D. Nevertheless, about a third of the papers looked at innovative ideas generated on the basis of the needs of SESAR and NextGen, the European-US future air transportation system initiatives calling for major changes in the current ATM system to cope with future demand.
Plenary discussions following the concluding remarks of Eurocontrol and the FAA discussed the reasons for the current focus of ATM research on more market-driven topics and whether a more integrated approach between the US and Europe was possible despite the somewhat different kind of innovation needs in both regions of the world. Certainly, knowledge and awareness of what has been done in recent years on both sides of the Atlantic was considered desirable. The conference helped to promote the issue, however, this was not really reflected in the papers. Therefore, future research activities should also highlight common achievements, also for the sake of harmonising the approaches for solving the imminent problems in air traffic congestion in both systems.
The paper on Resolution Advisory Downlink that was written by Stan Drozdowski and Doris Dehn from Eurocontrol together with Bernd Lorenz and myself won the best paper award in the ATM safety conference track. The best conference paper award was attributed to a paper on an analysis method for new ATM concepts being applied to a multi-sector planner in US airspace. It was written by Kevin Corker, Paul Lee, and Tom Prevot from San Jose State University together with Diana Liang from the FAA.
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