Aircraft Separation Assurance Using Implicit Maneuver Coordination: Issues and Potential Solutions

In earlier research projects, the depiction of airspace in which a loss of separation is predicted to occur has been explored as a means to increase conflict awareness. The computation of the conflict space is based on the current state of traffic and ownship. If the traffic maneuvers, the location and extent of the conflict space will change...

Exploring Opportunities for an Evolutionary Integration of Level 3 UAV Situation Awareness Support into ATC/C2 systems

To explore the question whether a promising concept that supports a UAV operator in separating the UAV from other traffic, also has potential benefits for Air Traffic Control, an identification and analysis of possibilities to add the conflict probing function to an existing Air Traffic Control system, the Multi-Aegis Site Emulator, was...

Beyond traffic depiction: Conformally integrating the conflict space to support level 3 situation awareness

The research described in this paper explores the addition of conformally integrated traffic probes into an egocentric Synthetic Vision (SV) Primary Flight Display (PFD). The underlying thought is that, although the traffic that is predicted to cause a future loss of separation may not lie within the field of view of the display, the location...

Exploring the potential of energy and terrain awareness information in a Synthetic Vision display for UAV control

This paper addresses the design and implementation of a conceptual Enhanced/Synthetic Vision Primary Flight Display format. The goal of this work is to explore the means to provide the operator of a UAV with an integrated view of the constraints for the velocity vector, resulting in an explicit depiction of the margins/boundaries of the multi...