27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-11.7.2

FUNCTIONAL ALLOCATION WITH AIRBORNE SELF-SEPARATION EVALUATED IN A PILOTED SIMULATION

D. J. Wing, J. L. Murdoch, J. P. Chamberlain, M. C. Consiglio, S. T. Hoadley, C. E. Hubbs*, M. T. Palmer
NASA Langley, USA; *NIA, USA

Keywords: air traffic management, trajectory based operations, separation assurance, self-separation, simulation

A human-in-the-loop simulation experiment evaluates the operational agility of an airborne self-separation concept to accommodate frequent and time-compressed trajectory changes without the performance degradation possible in current-day operations under similar conditions. This experiment supports a NASA research focus on functional allocation for separation assurance in 4D trajectory-based operations.

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