Coordinated by:
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TUDelft
Consortium members:
NLR, Thales NL
Research Questions
How can a novel representation of the future tactical and strategic air traffic management tasks -- a common shared representation (model of the world) that underlies the cognition and actions of both automation and human actors – be achieved? Can this Functional Airspace Representation (FAR) act as a visual interface for the human operator and at the same time provide the principles and input for higher levels of automation such as long- and short-term planning, revising, and monitoring of 4DTrajectory and highly-advanced conflict detection and resolution algorithms?
Research Scope
Higher levels of automation play a central role in the recent developments within ATM. Therefore, the main goal of C-SHARE was to determine a possible “common ground” for effective human-automation coordination in 4-dimensional Trajectory Based Operations (TBO). By adopting a multidisciplinary approach based on Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) and Ecological Interface Design (EID) frameworks, a functional model of the context in which the TBO work takes place has been defined. It was hypothesised that when this same functional model supports both the cognition of the human operator and guides the rationale of automated agents, this enables both to jointly and robustly respond to any unforeseen events as team players: a Joint Cognitive System (JCS).
Research Results
C-SHARE has evaluated a constraint-based design approach to create a first joint cognitive system for 4-D future ATM, and delivered a prototype for re-routing aircraft in Trajectory Based Operations (TBO) to manage perturbations.