The document discusses key challenges facing airspace users and potential solutions brought by SESAR. It notes congested networks, unpredictable delays, and rising costs as challenges. SESAR aims to enable sustained growth by relieving bottlenecks, reducing delays and cancellations through improved information management, and allowing optimized flight profiles to reduce fuel costs and air navigation service charges. Higher operational complexity and safety risks will be addressed through improved automation, reduced risks, and increased predictability.

1. EUROPEAN
COMMISSION

2. Key challenges faced by Airspace Users
Long-term ATM challenges and solutions brought by SESAR
Congested network, higher complexity, Transparent, efficient, and coordinated
unpredictable delay, lower productivity network of operations
Severe congestions at key Enable sustained growth by
airports (hubs) relieving capacity bottlenecks
Increasing delay and Reduce delays and cancellations
cancellation rates from improved information
management
Rising fuel costs due to higher Allow use of optimised fuel
route extensions efficient flight profiles
High European ANS charges Enable the reduction of ANS
charges per flight
Higher operational complexity Improve automation, reduce safety
and risks risks & improve predictability

3. WHAT DO WE CHANGE?

4. Communication
Separation Collision
Management avoidance
Sequencing and Navigation
merging
Surveillance
Routing
Information
Guidance Management

5. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - AIRBORNE
Cockpit 70s (B747) Cockpit Today (A380)
•3-4 Pilots & Navigation crew •2 Pilot crew
•Paper charts and books etc •Electronic Flight Bag
•Analogue electro-mechanical displays •Digital & Head-Up Displays
•Mechanical aircraft steering •Fly by Wire & Single Cockpit Approach
•VHF/HF Radio •Satellite communication and data link
•Autopilot •Collision detection and avoidance
•Flight Management System

6. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - GROUND
ATC Position 70s ATC Position Today
•Dark environment •Light environment
•2-3 Air Traffic Controllers •2 Air Traffic Controllers
•Analogue displays •Digital displays
•Paper strips •Paper and/or electronic strips
•Phone coordination •Electronic & phone coordination
•VHF Radio Clearance •VHF Radio Clearance
•Local radar feed •National radar feed
•National Flow Management •European Flow Management

7. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TODAY
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS:
•Still many 1970s Technologies
•High Fragmentation, poor interoperability
•Procedure based tactical control
•Rather low level of automation

8. SESAR FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES
INTEGRATION OF THE 4D THE SYSTEM WIDE AUTOMATION
AIRPORTS TRAJECTORY INFORMATION
PRINCIPLE MANAGEMENT
Integrating
airports - time Integrating
airspace users The Intranet Human operators
synchronised for Air Traffic concentrate on
operations of flight systems to
build predictable Management high value-added
surface tasks
trajectories and time
flight turn-around synchronised
flight precision
COLLABORATIVE NETWORK PLANNING
Integrated with airport operations planning
and airspace user flight planning

9. THE 4D TRAJECTORY PRINCIPLE
Building
Precision
in the sky

10. Moving from surveillance supported
Procedural Control to Trajectory Management
rom an ATC
system
constraining the
trajectory…
o

11. THE SYSTEM WIDE
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
The Intranet
for Air Traffic
Management

12. INNOVATION: upgrading ATM Information
Technology systems and infrastructure
Information Technology has:
Changed radically our way of working, our
way of thinking, our way of doing
business,
Improved decision making,
Reduced drastically the time to market,
Supported cost reduction in all industries,
on all markets.
Why would ATM be different?
European ATM needs its Intranet, its
System Wide Information
Management system to:
Exchange information, like 4D trajectory,
Support decision making and automation
Reduce communication infrastructure
costs and inefficiencies

13. AUTOMATION
Human operators
concentrate on high
value-added tasks
ICAS 2010, Future ATM – Safe & Efficient

14. ENHANCED AUTOMATION SUPPORT
SESAR currently maintains the human as central in the
system, taking decisions and managing the operations
•To meet the challenges ahead the
human needs even greater levels of
automation support
•Advanced computer tools provide
key decision-making support
•Fundamental dependence on
information relevance and timeliness
•Human Factors aspects significant
•Failure modes and recovery consequences for safety and business
continuity must be clearly understood
•Security considerations will become increasingly significant as systems
use more commercial and open protocols and as interoperability
improves

15. INNOVATIVE RESEARCH

16. THE RIGHT TO DREAM

17. THE RIGHT TO DREAM

18. THE RIGHT TO DREAM
 Challenges for the world this century ...
• Population (Demographics etc)
• Resources (Material, financial etc)
• Energy (Power, heat, fuel etc)
• Climate Change
 SESAR 2025, what is the vision beyond?
• Ambitious
• Challenging
• Engaging
• Relevant
• Different
 Human Centric
• Operators
• Developers
• Customers

19. Research in SESAR (SJU)
 Principles of the ‘Innovation Cycle’
 Continuum of change oriented to meet market and
societal needs
 SJU co-chairs the ACARE SRIA Working Group

20. INNOVATION is, ‘What’ ......
What is
desirable to
Users?
Innovation
What is What is
possible with viable in the
Technology? Marketplace?

21. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT &
INNOVATION IN SESAR
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22. Pieces of SESAR WP-E Research
 Research Themes:

23. What’s in WP-E today?
3 - Research Networks Launched
 Centres of Excellence for ATM in Complex Systems,
Automation and Legal.
 Outreach beyond ATM
20 - Post-Graduate studies active
 7 PhD’s in ComplexWorld Network
 13 PhD’s in Automation Network
18 - Research Projects launched
 9 Projects on ‘Automation’ topic
 8 projects on ‘Complexity’ topic
 1 project ‘Legal Aspects’ topic

24. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
Objectives of HALA!
The meaning of
HALA! in Spanish is
"Go on! Get moving".
www.hala-sesar.net

25. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
Activities of HALA!
Pollinizer (facilitator) www.hala-sesar.net
Scientific collaborative platform
www.hala-sesar.net

26. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
Role of the network in SESAR
90+ Organisations
350+ researchers
www.hala-sesar.net

27. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
2. HALA! has to encourage 3. Transfer knowledge from
the development of SESAR to HALA!
radically innovative Participants researching in
projects automation in ATM
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Development
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arch
HALA! SESAR Research Network
SESAR Work Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
Levels of
k Automation
Programme or in ATM
N etw
4. Identify in which areas
SESAR requires more
research in automation (Gap
Analysis)
www.hala-sesar.net

28. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
POSITION PAPER
- State of the Art and Research Agenda
www.hala-sesar.net

29. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
HERITAGE IN ATM AND AUTOMATION
1
“In the ATM Target Concept it is recognised
2
that humans will constitute the core of the
future European ATM Systems operations..”
D3. – ATM Target Concept. SESAR.
3
www.hala-sesar.net

30. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
NEW PARADIGM SHIFT IN ATM AUTOMATION
www.hala-sesar.net

31. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
NEW PARADIGM SHIFT IN ATM AUTOMATION
www.hala-sesar.net

32. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
NEW PARADIGM SHIFT IN ATM AUTOMATION
New role assignment based on :
www.hala-sesar.net

33. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
Our role is to FIND the right questions……
“BEST TIME”
“DECISION
PLACE”
“BEST PLAYER”
www.hala-sesar.net

34. HALA! SESAR Research Network
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
HALA! Main Research Areas
www.hala-sesar.net

35. Application of theFlight Deck Automation Support Modeling of
AUTOFLY-Aid : Theory of Formal Languages to the HALA! SESAR Research Network
with Dynamic 4D Trajectory Management for
Trajectory Uncertainty and the Analysis of its Impact in Future Trajectory-
Based Operations. Adaptive Airborne Collision
Responsive and Boeing R&TE and Glasgow University
Towards Higher Levels of Automation in ATM
Avoidance Adaptive Airborne Collision
Uncertainty reduction by an ATS inherent (ITU) state vector
Avoidance. Istanbul Technical University aircraft
modeling and estimation. Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
Robust data fusion for 4D conflict-free optimal
trajectories in a highly automated ATM
A framework to assess the abilityCatalonia.
system. Technical University of of automation to deliver capacity targets in European airspace. Imperial
College London
Making decisions on human automation allocations resilient by
using a virtual safety advisor for ATM. University Kassel.
Managing information needs in the
design of highly automated systems
and human-computer Effective Automation in ATM: a new perspective on
interfaces. University of Roma 3. and control of automated systems. IRIT,
management
Toulouse and DEEP BLUE
Context-Aware Adaptive Automation for Air
Aircraft Turnaround management in a highly automated 4 D flight
Traffic Control. Delft University of Technology
Information Automation on operations environment using Closed loop stochastic dynamic process
the Flight
Deck in the Context of Trajectory based under input and state constraints. Technische Universitaet
optimization Development of an autonomous knowledge-based system state
Operations. Technische Universität
Dresden evaluation for an enhanced decision making process, Technische
Darmstadt
Universität Braunschweig.
Exploiting Innovative Sensor Data Fusion Strategies for Sense and Avoid
Units to be Installed onboard Unmanned Aerial Systems. University of
Naples “Federico II”
www.hala-sesar.net

36. Results from WP-E
 Implementing a healthy body of research:
 A recognised repository of knowledge providing material for
extending SESAR development beyond current timescales and
scope.
 Communicating achievements in Research:
SESAR JU Website presence and Research Network Websites
Complexity and Automation events and summer schools
SESAR Innovation Days
Awareness in SESAR Forum at ATC Global 2012
 Recognition
Young Scientists Award
Science and Innovation award in WP-E.

37. Joining Everything Together
Achieving Innovation DEPLOYMENT
RESULTS
APPLIED RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
UNDERSTANDING VIABILITY
SESAR Demos
SESAR WP E Current SESAR
Work Programme
Mess!!!!
EXPLORATORY RESEARCH
IDEAS

38. Next steps
 Maintain the dynamic created with an additional call
for projects in 2012
 Extend the existing co-ordination across more of
the R&D community
 Utilise further the Research Network communities
 Emphasise links to Universities
 Bridge SESAR innovation and Long Term R&D to
European initiatives like Horizon 2020
 Re-align the SESAR Innovation and R&D
scope to face the new European Challenges
 Build further links to R&D
outside of ATM
 Exchange knowledge
 Exploit other domains

39. THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
www.sesarju.eu