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Air Traffic Control and Automation

aicia tecnologia partner tecnologico andalucia spain

Due to the continuing increase in air traffic over the last few years, and the fact that its control is basically based on operational concepts created for obsolete technology, the present system of Air Traffic Management (ATM) is close to reaching the limit of its capacity and will be unable to satisfy the prospective future demand.

The European initiatives (SESAR) and the North American (NextGen) for a future ATM system require a considerable increase in the levels of automation and its efficiency. Some aspects related to this future system, such as developing new methods, technology and systems for automating air navigation and air traffic management, including new methods for Flight Control Systems (FCS) and Flight Management Systems (FMS) are tackled in this area of knowledge.


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Modelling and Computation of Trajectories

The operational concepts for the future ATM System will be based on an efficient computation of commercial airline trajectories both from the operational view point and that of analysis. The development of an infrastructure for modelling and computing aircraft trajectories capable of overcoming the limitations of the current ones and of serving as a base for the future operational and analysis tools necessary to improve the present air traffic control system. For this “sense and avoid” technology, sensors and sensorial fusion in air navigation based on trajectories, techniques for estimating uncertainties in air navigation, automatic landing, and methods of flight control systems (FCS), flight management systems (FMS) and avionics technology for air traffic management will be used.


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Trajectory Optimization

Trajectory optimization is tackled with a view to these objectives, taking into account the optimization of flight phases (take off, cruise, landing) as well as global trajectories (from airport to airport).


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Conflict Detection and Solutions

The need to increase the automation of the air traffic management system call for the development of advanced tools to detect conflicts, that is, the loss in the minimum separation between commercial planes, and help towards solving this. Conflict detection and resolution methods are developed both for en-route flights and for the more exacting case of converging traffic at terminal areas (TMA).
Autonomous separation methods for aircrafts, safe trajectory optimization. Negotiation methods in air traffic distributed management. User preference optimization.
SWIM based architecture is used for air traffic management. Ad-hoc mobile networks for air traffic management. Integration of unmanned autonomous vehicles in air traffic.