The Changing Landscape and its Impact on ATM Juliana Goh Head of Research MITRE Asia Pacific Singapore
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Future Tower Operations – Remote and Smart
MITRE Asia Pacific Singapore (MAPS)
Juliana Goh, PhD
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Head of Research and Portfolio Manager
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Traffic growth = a need to accommodate higher controller workload while maintaining safe and efficient operations
Key Messages
A smart remote tower as a platform for advanced technologies that augment the human controller
Using a systematic process to engage your stakeholders to ensure successful operational integration and regulatory compliance
The changing landscape of future tower operations
Why
What
How
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Why
Rapid traffic growth implies a need to find ways to accommodate higher controller workload while maintaining safe and efficient operations
Source: Airbus GMF 2015
Source: Boeing GMF, Innovata
2011 FEBRUARY 2016 FEBRUARY
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What 01 Remote Towers 02 Benefits 03 Smart Remote Towers
• Small and large
airports
• Single and
multiple airport
control
• Full time and
contingency
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What 01 Remote Towers 02 Benefits 03 Smart Remote Towers
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Cost Savings
Compared to building
and maintaining a
physical tower
Labor costs for
multiple small airport
control
Security
Facility is situated
away from airport
Continuous
Operations
Provision of
contingency
operations when
main tower is
compromised
Advance Technology
Platform
Video based view becomes a
platform for advanced
technologies in areas such
as computer vision, video
analytics, artificial
intelligence
Leverage these technologies
to augment the controller Icon Sources: clipart
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What 01 Remote Towers 02 Benefits 03 Smart Remote Towers
Trained
Air Traffic
Controllers
Remote Aerodrome Control Facility (RACF)
Object recognition
Leverage advanced technologies to augment the controller, enhancing their performance, and maintaining or improving operational efficiency and safety
Source: machinelearningsoftware.org
Enhancing degraded views Mimic controller decision making
Source: topnews.in
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How Use a systematic process to engage stakeholders, ensuring successful
operational integration and regulatory compliance
Concept Development
• Engage stakeholders
• Assess alternatives
• Measure benefits
Implementation
• Integrate and test on
field systems
• Verify & validate
Field Testing
Prototype Lab Evaluation HITL, Demonstrations
Tech Transfer
• Identify gaps
• Determine research approach
• Determine technology
readiness
MAPS ATM Lab
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