Projects
Flight deck
Avionics multi-touch interfaces
Exploiting touch screen technology for direct manipulation purposes. Touch screen technology has experienced significant improvements recently, evolving to several s...
In-flight 4D trajectory revision
Supporting 4D trajectory revisions on the flight deck. To accomplish air traffic growth in a safe and efficient way, future air traffic management concepts require a...
In-flight terrain and traffic avoidance
Toward integrating terrain and traffic constraints. Future airspace operations will allow flight crews to plan and fly their own preferred route and time of arrival ...
SAFAR: Small Aircraft Future Avionics Architecture
EU research for next generation small aircraft. SAFAR (small aircraft future avionics architecture), a project sponsored by the EU under the FP7 funding scheme, aime...
Ecological approach to pilot terrain awareness
This project aimed to increase pilot terrain awareness by enhancing flight deck displays with ecological overlays that make the aircraft maneuvering capabilities sal...
Airborne self separation
Distributed control by airborne self separation. The advent of automation in the cockpit has greatly affected the nature of the tasks on the flight deck, as well as ...
Aircraft energy management
Linking low-level controls and the high order system goals. One of the most difficult aspects of manually controlled flight is the coupling between the control over...
Air traffic control
MAHALO: Modern ATM via Human/Automation Learning Optimisation
Supporting the transition to higher levels of automation in aviation by creating and empirically evaluating next generation computer-based tools In the emerging age ...
MUFASA 2: What drives automation acceptance in ATC?
Studying factors underlying automation acceptance. The first MUFASA project provided empirical evidence that both acceptance and strategic conformance are important ...
Context-aware adaptive automation in ATC
Adaptive automation in ATC. Despite the benefits and huge advances in (aviation) automation over the last decades, the current automated tools are in many cases unaw...
Arrival management in the presence of arrival time uncertainty
Supporting arrival management by visualizing uncertainty. To balance the flow of inbound aircraft and the capacity at airports, more and more Air Navigation Service ...
4D ATM: traffic sequencing and merging
Merging and sequencing arrivals in 4D. In the coming decades, the task of an air traffic controller is expected to shift to one of strategic, trajectory-based air tr...
MUFASA: Multi-dimensional Framework for Advanced SESAR Automation
Acceptance of advanced decision-aiding automation. MUFASA, Multidimensional Framework for Advanced SESAR Automation, aimed to develop a framework for designing futur...
C-SHARE: Shared cognition in future ATM
Perturbation management of 4D trajectories. C-SHARE, Joint ATM Cognition through Shared Representations, aimed to develop a novel representation of the tactical and ...
UAV interfaces
Ecological approach to the supervisory control of UAV swarms
EID for UAV swarming. Advances in miniaturized computer technology have made it possible for a single Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to complete its mission autonomou...
Workload modelling
Solution space workload modelling
Predicting workload by analyzing control task complexity. Air traffic controller workload is considered to be a limiting factor in the growth of air traffic worldwid...