3rd
Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop
Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop
3rd
Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop proceedings
3rd
Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop presentation
First
Eurocontrol Joint Research lab
Eurocontrol
Innovative Research Workshop exhibition
4th
Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop 6 8 December 2005
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Last
December, the 3rd Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop has
been held at the Eurocontrol Experimental Centre. More than 150 visitors
(industries, universities, software houses, R&D laboratories, small and
medium enterprises, air navigation service providers, airports and airlines)
coming from several transport domains and from more than 20 different
European countries were welcomed for the 2 day workshop. Advanced ATM
concepts, emerging technologies applied to the ATM, fundamental research,
Eurocontrol coordinated actions and the Eurocontrol Innovative research
strategy were presented and discussed. In
parallel with the workshop, 15 external partners presented their innovative
research activities in an exhibition area, focusing on emerging man machine
interfaces involving animation and sound, and also on airport ground
applications. |
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The key event
of this workshop was the creation of the first Eurocontrol Joint Research Lab
EJRL - between the French Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
EPHE and the Experimental Centre. |
Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop
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Over the two days, all Eurocontrol Innovative research
projects were presented and the floor was given to the attendees to comment
on our work. Also, the Innovative Research Advisory Board (IRAB) composed
of Eurocontrol and national experts, with a representation from the EC
RTD department, was mandated to review the entire
Eurocontrol Innovative research work, to assess the CARE INO programme and its continuation, and the overall INO
strategy and work program for the coming years. Strong emphasis was also
given to the alignment of the EEC INO work plan with the ACARE Strategic
Research Agenda 2 (SRA2). Mr. Pierre
Andribet, EEC core business manager, opened the workshop on behalf of
Jean-Marc Garot, EEC director, by stressing the
objectives of this event: ·
To present status and results of
all EEC sponsored Innovative studies, ·
To obtain feedback and
recommendation for future work, ·
To debate the facilitator role of
the EEC concerning Innovative studies in ·
To debate possible extension of
this annual workshop beyond EEC funded projects. The first
day focussed on the CARE INO programme and emerging technologies applied to
ATM. The entire CARE INO programme was reviewed. Each project provided the
audience with the results of its work and with the perspectives they were
proposing for the continuation over 2005 and 2006. In 2004, CARE INO
supported 6 projects covering emerging technologies applied to ATM such as 3D
visualisation, augmented and virtual reality, voice recognition
applications, graphical animation and sound for ATM man
machine interfaces, and quantum cryptography applied to air
ground communication; and advanced concept for airport of the future and
inter-modality; and lastly mathematical modelling of safety
occurrences based on neural network concepts. Some of these projects also
presented prototypes at the exhibition enabling anybody
to assess their progress. IRAB gave
feedback on each project presented and also recommendations for the
continuation of CARE INO for 2005 and 2006. It was the first time that such
feedback was given live to all attendees and was very
much appreciated. The
afternoon focussed on presentations of PhD work beginning
in the INO research lab. Each PhD student gave an
abstract of his/her tasks for the coming years. PhD work focuses
mainly on advanced visualization techniques (3D, Augmented and Virtual
reality) applied to ATM and how the human the
controller could make use of this
kind of new technology. Case studies will be performed in the context of
airport control towers. This is one contribution
from the EEC INO team in line with the ACARE SRA2 in the field of innovative
visualization techniques and tower-less ATM.
Other studies are starting on the extension of watermarking technology. Other
PhD students are working on advanced
concepts in the field of small air vehicles that
could be largely used in the future, or in the airport of the future. Again
this is a strong contribution in line with the ACARE SRA2.
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On the
second day, advanced concepts were presented, especially the paradigm SHIFT
project. This innovative concept impacts the airspace typology (highways,
tube), the working methods, collaboration amongst
all ATM actors, social and legal issues in terms of new contractual
agreements. It has also been recognized that there are some
links with the MUAC MANTAS project which was presented from MANTAS in the
exhibition. This work is also complemented by a set of
PhD studies working on automation concepts. One is especially focusing on
developing some of the ERASMUS concepts in the field of subliminal control
and the highly automated ATM part of the ACARE SRA2
ATM R&D programme. |
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One of the
outputs of the Paradigm SHIFT project was a complete research agenda that
will from now, be the foundation of the entire EEC INO advanced concept work
plan. This research agenda shows the various issues that need to be addressed
when defining and validating a new ATM concept. The
afternoon of the second day was dedicated to the modelling
activities (analytical, uncertainty and soft computing) ongoing at the
Innovative research lab. Then, before closing the workshop,
the innovative research lab strategy for the coming years 2005 to 2009 -
was presented, reviewed and assessed by the IRAB who finally endorsed the strategy
for the coming years. |
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The
overall feedback from these 2 days was very positive and can be
summarised by Jan
Van Doorns words I spent 2 refreshing days at the EEC by listening to new fresh ideas
and by having the chance to see and touch innovative products when visiting
the exhibition. We also had very
good input from the attendees which will be taken into
account when developing the INO work programme |
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Some of
the major recommendations given were to extend this workshop to external
partners, and also to consider organizing summer universities
for young ATM European researchers. What a
challenge for us to make next Eurocontrol Innovative Research workshop in
2005 better than in 2004! |
3rd Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop
proceedings
3rd Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop presentation
First
Eurocontrol Joint Research lab
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On
Thursday evening, the EEC and the French Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
EPHE Sorbonne celebrated the creation of the first Eurocontrol Joint
Research Lab. seethe convention was signed by Ms Courtel,
President of the French Ecole Pratique
des Hautes Etudes EPHE Sorbonne and Mr.
Andribet, EEC Business Manager. This was the result of
several months of negotiation between the two partners. |
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This first
Eurocontrol Joint Research Lab also called in French Unite Mixte Europeenne
de Recherche, is the first attempt to create
a network of European universities to perform backbone thinking for ATM
and will specialise in the modelling of the
ATM system in which human cognition will be modelled and
analyzed from a complex system modeling approach. ATM System Modelling has been
identified within ACARE SRA 2 as an important prerequisite for future
improvements in ATM. This new Joint
Research Lab is located at the EEC, and is called
the Laboratory for Complex System Modeling & Cognition (CSMC). As
part of the agreement, five senior research scientists and professors from
EPHE are partially seconded to the laboratory to conduct research and to
supervise PhD students work, and EEC staff will gradually increase their
teaching activities at EPHE. |
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This joint
research lab will enable the sharing of expertise, knowledge and
experimentation means from both sides. Today, limited to 2 initial partners,
this joint research lab will seek other European partners The EEC INO research
area will develop the concept of joint research lab in other ATM
domains for example, 3D
visualisation, augmented and virtual reality technologies, and airports of the
future. |
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Innovative Research Workshop exhibition
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In
parallel to the workshop, 15 external partners presented their innovative
research activities, focusing on emerging man machine interfaces
combining animation and sound; and airport ground
applications. This was a unique opportunity to see, listen and touch advanced
technologies and products that could be widely
deployed in the ATM world of the
future. A series of innovative man machine
interfaces combining animation, as used in the game industry, with sound interaction were presented by Intuilab
and Intactil design with the kind participation of Apple. This raised a great deal of interest
from the visitors who were able to
see and touch for the first time examples of what the computer games industry could bring to
the ATM
business. These projects are fully supported by the CARE INO programme. The decision has been made to investigate
further the use of these technologies in ATM. |
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3D visualisation, augmented and virtual
reality based applications were also demonstrated from pure lab work (ARMIN Paris university),
and from industry (BARCO-Orthogon) which tend to show
that these technologies are well mastered now, but require work on their application in ATM. This is why the EEC INO team is
developing projects to assess the use of these emerging technologies within
ATM: for example in tower-less projects. |
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Other man machine interfaces (VertiDigi and Vigiestrip) were presented by the French CENA which demonstrate the real added
value of using animated man machine interfaces for the ATM. A voice recognition application was presented by Thales TRT and IRIT which
not only showed that this technology works, but also suggested how it could be used in ATM. Visitors were able to
speak, to listen and to see from both the ground and the air side. |
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Other applications focusing on airport ground management were
demonstrated for example 2 EC projects: AVITRACK
from SILOGIC and AIRNET from M3SYSTEMS. These applications, and the domain
itself, were quite new for the EEC INO team but it shown that from both
technical and business point of views, there were some strong synergies to
develop in the future. Also, this was a good opportunity to develop INO team
involvement in the airport domain bearing in mind that INO is starting
several projects focusing on the airport of the future. We were also pleased to welcome MUAC people
who presented the MANTAS project. This was a great opportunity to exchange ideas about advanced
ATM concepts between the MANTAS and Paradigm SHIFT teams. We hope these first
contacts will be developed in the future. |
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Considering the success of this first exhibition organized within the
Eurocontrol Innovative Workshop, and the number of
fruitful exchanges between the people who attended the event, we plan to
develop this activity in future workshops |
3rd Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop
Exhibition
4th
Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop 6 8 December 2005
The 4th
Eurocontrol Innovative Research Workshop will take place from 6 - 8 December
2005, at the EEC. For the first time, we will focus not only on
Eurocontrol Innovative research, but will open the
floor to external partners to present their innovative research projects. Also,
as for the 3rd workshop, an exhibition area will be open for any
external partner to present their activities. |
Contacts
EEC - Innovative Research Area deputy manager
EEC Innovative Research Area
assistant
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