Assisting Air Traffic Controllers in Planning and Monitoring Continuous-Descent Approaches

Eijk, A. van der; Borst, Clark; Veld, A.C. In 't; Paassen, M. M. van

doi:10.2514/1.c031686

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“…Examples are a Total Energy management display for basic aircraft symmetrical flight control, that enables pilots to understand and act on exchanging their aircraft potential and kinetic energy , Separation Assistance displays that allow pilots to better understand and act on other traffic Ellerbroek et al, 2011;Ellerbroek et al, 2013b;Ellerbroek et al, 2013a), an ecological Synthetic Vision display (Borst et al, 2006;Borst et al, 2008;Borst et al, 2010), and a display to work on fourdimensional aircraft trajectories Van Marwijk et al, 2011) We also explored various EID designs for air traffic controllers in current and future air traffic management environments (Tielrooij et al, 2010;Klomp et al, 2011;Van der Eijk et al, 2012;De Leege et al, 2013;Van Paassen et al, 2013;Klomp et al, 2016), and controllers of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (Fuchs et al, 2014).…”

Section: Ecological Approachmentioning

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Designing for Situation Awareness - Aviation Perspective

Mulder

Borst

Paassen

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications

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Abstract:In the design of human-machine interfaces and automation, an important question is how to obtain and validate a design that is capable of supporting the operator's understanding and situation awareness of the process under control. Whereas many research efforts address the question of 'what is the operator aware of?' -the awareness -only a few investigations focus on studying what the operator should be aware of in the first place, i.e., 'what is the situation?' In this paper we briefly discuss some of our research activities which aim at answering this second question, following an 'ecological approach' to interface design. The clever use of automation tools and novel visualizations will be presented that allows human operators working in aviation (pilots, air traffic controllers) in dealing with complex tasks. The airborne self-separation task will be discussed, as an example of showing how ecological interfaces can support pilots in their decision making.

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Section: Ecological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing for Situation Awareness - Aviation Perspective

Mulder

Borst

Paassen

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications

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“…However, proactive actions taken by the approaching aircraft may improve the effectiveness of managing conflicts, and the common method of implementing such proactive actions is to adjust the arrival time to a fixed entry point. Specifically, arrival management via speed adjustment of entering aircraft has been actively investigated to relieve congestion in terminal airspace [22,23]. In contrast, few studies have investigated the possibility of changing the entry point.…”

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Conflict Management in Air Traffic Control Using Complexity Map

Hong

Kim

Lee

2015

Journal of Aircraft

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This study proposes a new method of conflict management in air traffic control that ensures a safe distance between aircraft while minimizing the workload for sector controllers. When an aircraft approaches a sector, the proper entry point is determined based on the concept of a complexity map. Using detailed information on how the traffic responds to an entering aircraft provided by the complexity map, its entry point can be modified to minimize the conflicts inside the sector. To compute the complexity map efficiently, the reachable entry points on the sector boundary are defined considering the maneuverability of the entering aircraft. Next, the variance quadtree algorithm is utilized to construct a grid of the complexity map in a coarse-to-fine manner. The performance of the proposed algorithm is verified by numerical simulations.

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