The
workshop is one of the mechanisms by which the AD4 project consortium
is able to present its work to interested parties in the Air Traffic
Control domain. Essentially its purpose was twofold, to publicise
and demonstrate the work-in-progress of the partners, and also
to elicit feedback from the approach control ATC staff. Demonstration
software was shown to controllers to see how they felt it would
assist them in their duties. The event was held at the ENAV Area
Control Centre (ACC) at Ciampino on 5th October 2005. Nearly forty
registered attendees came to the workshop and some Approach Controllers
saw the demonstration software, and discussed issues with consortium
members.
The
title of the workshop indicated the context of the workshop: “from
the present to the future ATC”.
One
objective was to engage the ACC Approach Controllers about their
activity today (the present) and then to capture the imagination
about the possibilities for tomorrow (the future). The presentations
were split into two parts the “Operational ATC” parts and the
“IT infrastructural” parts. The division into these two themes
was to ensure that the attendees got a rounded view of the whole
of the project. The talks of the consortium partners were grouped
into these themes, such that they met either an ATC or IT perspective.
The focus for the operational air-traffic-control part was the
operational concepts, 4DHMI and the simulation platform; while
the IT infrastructure focused on implementation issues, such as
MDA, Security and IT systems. The keynote speech and AD4 project
introduction gave a theoretical and practical framework to these
two themes.
The
workshop was organised by ENAV, NEXT and Middlesex University.
The themes were developed and each partner contributed a presentation
or part of a presentation. Invites were sent to key personnel
in the domain and the conference facilities booked at the CRAV
(Centro Regionale Assistenza al Volo) centre at Ciampino Airport
in Italy. The presentations were viewed and standardised, and
posters created by NEXT, each partner contributed parts as required.
The
workshop hall was split into two parts the presentation room and
a demonstration room for the D-Cube demonstration by NEXT. The
following are the presentations given at the workshop.
9:30
Welcome and Introduction
Head of Ciampino CRAV /
ENAV representative (Italy),
Luigi Mazzucchelli, NEXT
R&D – AD4 Project Coordinator (Italy),
Prof. William
Wong, MiddlesexUniversity, London,
UK
In this talk we will outline
the key human factors challenges and the directions we
have taken to drive the development of technology
that can give operational users new capabilities and better
visualization of time and space issues in air traffic
management. Whenever we discuss 3D representations we
often think about literal representations of aircraft
and 3D digital terrains. How significant is pictorial
realism? 3D visualizations are not new, but incorporating
a 4th dimension such as time, presents new problems. Time
itself has other dimensions, the past and the future,
for example. The future can be predicted based on historical
data such as an aircraft's track history - a causal relationship.
How could intentions, such as intermediate planning and
re-planning, be accommodated in a 3D/4D space? what is
the impact of this on operational decision making, communications
and team working?
11:00-11:15
Coffee Break
Operational Concepts, Human
Factors and novel HMI approaches –
Simone Rozzi, Peter Woodwa MiddlesexUniversity
(UK)
We will present an overview of the operational concept reports, the methodology
and contribution of the results to the AD4 project. In
particular we will present the most relevant scenarios
emerged from the operational work analysis, resulting
from the field study regarding the Approach and Tower
control facilities. Some of the key requirements for the
controllers include for the Approach Control projection
of vertical separation, holding stack management and visualization
of 3D obstacles. For the Towercontrol they will include projection of separations,
runway incursion detection, visibility issues on apron
taxiway and runway, runway incursion detection.
12:15-12:45
Moving
from the present to the future: from Operational Concepts
to the realization of the 4DHMIs for the Approach and
Tower
Description of operational scenarios identified by AD4 team for the Approach
and Tower Controls. Highlights on safety-critical and
time-critical situations managed by controllers.Considerations of controllers’ workload and stress
level in current airport towers.Proposed solutions, based on the use of 3D/4D visualization,
analyzed with respect to operational scenarios.
Antonio
Monteleone, NEXT R&D – AD4 Project Responsible
Heterogeneous systems will interoperate within AD4 and a well structured
infrastructure can solve many of the problems usually
encountered during the integration steps. This presentation
intends to introduce the IT infrastructure used within
the AD4 projects giving insights on the approach used
to integrate simulation platforms and visualization components
all together.
Alessandro
Boccalatte, Space Applications Services. (Belgium)
An introduction to MMISE as a tool for Human Machine Interface (HMI)
specification and design. To include using MMISE by the
identification of goals, task analysis deployment, the
identification of HMI information and control requirements.
The process of integrating human factors into the HMI.
To conclude, the role of MMISE in the AD4 context.
Julia Reznik,
Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS (Germany)
This presentation introduces Model Driven Software Development (MDSD)
concepts in general and gives a short overview in one
of the most popular approaches used in MDSD Model Driven
Architecture (MDA). The presentation describes how
MDSD can contribute to the development of software systems
in the ATM domain and especially in the AD4 project context.
At the end the AD4 tool chain for model driven development
of AD4 platform will be presented.
The future trends in ATC, for example a much higher level of integration
and the usage of standard platforms, will raise many IT
security issues. The current security solutions, mainly
guards and fences, will not be sufficient anymore. In
our presentation, we describe a security architecture
for complex distributed systems and its usage in the ATC
domain.
15:50-16:30
Demonstrations
Conference feedback
CHAIR: Peter Woodward,
MiddlesexUniversity
16:30-17:30
This
session will be used to allow conference attendees to
discuss the contents of the presentations and demonstrations
17:30
End of Workshop
Workshop organisation MiddlesexUniversity, IDC Centre Prof. William
Wong W.Wong@mdx.ac.uk
AD4 Project Coordinator
- NEXT Research and Development Dr. Luigi Mazzucchelli luigi.mazzucchelli@next.it .............................................................................................................................................
