In this contribution a novel system of speaker segmentation has been designed for improving safety on voice communication in air traffic control. In addition to the usage of the aircraft identification tag to assign speaker turns on the shared communication channel to aircrafts, speaker verification is investigated as an add-on attribute to improve security level effectively for the air traffic...

The most efficient size and shape of air traffic control facility airspace boundaries in the Next Generation Air Transportation System will not necessarily be the same as in past organizations of the system. As limitations of communications and surveillance technology become less important for drawing boundaries, operational efficiency will take a greater role in defining the airspace allocated...

NASA developed the traffic aware strategic aircrew requests concept for a cockpit automation that identifies route improvements and advises the aircrew to request the change from the air traffic controller. In order to increase the chance of air traffic control approval, the automation ensures that the route is clear of known traffic, weather, and airspace restrictions. Hence the technology is ...

This paper describes a conflict resolution algorithm that can provide automated separation assurance for the next generation air traffic control system. The algorithm generates resolution trajectories that can be sent to the aircraft from a ground-based system via data link. With suitable reconfiguration the algorithm can also be installed on board aircraft to support airborne separation assura...

Air traffic controllers typically use visual displays to interact with various automation systems. Automation tools are intended to reduce controller task load, but they may also create new tasks associated with acquiring, integrating, and utilizing information from displays. Consequently, the complexity of information displayed may reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of an automation syste...

The Constraints Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) have a great role in the Artificial Intelligence domain. They allow to represent in a simple form a great number of real problems. This is the framework of our contribution. It consists to propose a distributed CSP representation of air traffic conflicts and to propose a methodology of resolution to this problem. In this perspective, we first propose...

We develop a network congestion game to test a series of scenarios in order to analyse potential paths for change in air traffic management in Europe. The two stage game models air traffic control (ATC) providers that set charges and in the second stage airlines that choose flight paths given an airline schedule and the charges from the first stage. The scenarios analysed in the model include (...

While previous research has addressed controller workload as a function of cognitive complexity due to environmental and to a lesser degree, organizational factors, significantly less attention has been paid to the role of displays and complexity in the ATC environment. One drawback to new display technology is that in dynamic human supervisory control domains, it is not always clear whether a ...

With the two-dimension (2D) radar screen, current visualization interface has reached its limits in term of quantities of information that should be made available to controllers. Our investigation consists in the use of three-dimension (3D) stereoscopic visualization as controllers’ interface, assuming that 3D environment provides possibilities to incorporate additional information such as wea...

In this first part of our paper, we introduce some basic concepts and terminology of distributed planning, and describe a novel CoordinatorCoworker structure — a control mechanism that can dynamically reorganize the planning system in response to the tasks at hand. Coordinators get either self-appointed in unambiguous situations or selected through a unique and inexpensive nomination/confirmati...