22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-1.9.1
ASAS - INVESTIGATIONS INTO AIRBORNE SEPARATION ASSURANCE IN A DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT
E. Brämer, O. Lehmann, H. Fricke, G. Hüttig
Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Germany
Keywords: asas, free flight, hcma, dis, data link, cdti
With the introduction of Free Flight in dedicated
airspace, investigations into collaborative
as well as airborne conflict detection and resolution
gain increasing importance.
For airborne conflict detection and resolution,
intended flight paths of surrounding aircraft
shall not only be computed through extrapolation
of the present aircraft position but
shall additionally include current FMS flightplan
data from intruding aircraft.
Consequently, concerning threat detection
and resolution, a specially designed Collision
Risk Model was developed, identifying threats
with regard to individual navigation performance
of the conflicting aircraft. According to
ICAO’s RNP concept, threats are consequently
defined through preset minimum level of safety
adjusted dynamically to current aircraft and
environment parameters.
The objective of this project is to demonstrate
that well adapted resolution advisory
algorithms, appropriately displayed on EFIS
displays according to a Human Centered Automation
Approach, can lead in the light of concepts
like EATMS etc. to equally safe but more
economic air traffic procedures.
In this context, a distributed simulation environment
with high en-route traffic scenarios
has been set up. At the Scientific Research Facility
as part of the A330/A340 Full Flight
Simulator, the Generic Flight Management
System and its Human Machine Interface were
modified in order to allow the processing and
presentation of the newly developed functions
and procedures.
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