Report on Communication and Dissemination
D6.1
R-WAKE Grant: 699247 Call: H2020-SESAR-2015-1
Topic: SESAR-07-2015 (Separation Management and Separation Standards)
Consortium coordinator: GTD Sistemas de Información SA Edition date: [15th March 2018] Edition: [01.00.00]
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Authoring & Approval
Authors of the document
Name/Beneficiary Position/Title Date
Meiko STEEN (TUBS) R-WAKE TUBS project manager 15/03/2018
Reviewers internal to the project
Name/Beneficiary Position/Title Date
Javier Busto (GTD) R-WAKE Project Coordinator 15/03/2018
Sergio Ruiz (GTD) R-WAKE Technical Coordinator
Jean Pierre Nicolaon (M3SB) RWAKE Contributor and ATC Expert
Xavier Prats (UPC) R-WAKE UPC project manager
Luca Save (DBLU) Safety assessment expert and WP5 lead.
Approved for submission to the SJU By — Representatives of beneficiaries involved in the project
Name/Beneficiary Position/Title Date
Javier Busto (GTD) R-WAKE Project Coordinator
Luca Save (DBLU) Safety assessment expert and WP5 lead.
Vic Moore (A-SYST) WP5.3 lead
Jean Pierre Nicolaon (M3SB) RWAKE Contributor and ATC Expert
Rejected By – Representatives of beneficiaries involved in the project
Name/Beneficiary Position/Title Date
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Document History
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R-WAKE WAKE VORTEX SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS TO ENHANCE EN-ROUTE SEPARATION MANAGEMENT IN EUROPE
This REPORT is part of a project that has received funding from the SESAR Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 699247 under European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Abstract
This report is the final version of the deliverable D6.1 “Report on Communication and Dissemination” for the R-WAKE project, which is intended to provide a summary of project dissemination activities. The report includes an overview on the R-WAKE project website, papers and dissemination to SESAR and other project relevant projects.
The R-WAKE project addresses the SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research work-programme topic ER-07-2015 - Separation Management and Separation Standards, within the area of Advanced Air Traffic Services (ATS). The R-WAKE project overall objective is to investigate the risks and hazards of potential wake vortex encounters in the en-route airspace, in current and futuristic operational scenarios, in order to assess potential enhancements for the Separation Schemes and Separation Management methods in Europe.
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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT .............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES ..................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 SCOPE AND STRUCTURE ............................................................................................................................... 6 1.3 GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ACRONYMS IN USE .................................................................................................. 6
1.3.1 Acronyms table .................................................................................................................................. 6
2 R-WAKE PUBLIC WEBSITE......................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 TECHNICAL SETUP ....................................................................................................................................... 7 2.2 CONTENT .................................................................................................................................................. 8
3 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ACCORDING TO PMP ................................................................................... 9
4 EXPLOITATION ....................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 R-WAKE CONSORTIUM ............................................................................................................................. 12 4.2 TUBS .................................................................................................................................................... 14
4.2.1 Wake Vortex Simulator ................................................................................................................... 14 4.2.2 Wake Vortex Encounter calculation tool enhancement .................................................................. 14
4.3 UPC ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 4.3.1 Traffic Simulator .............................................................................................................................. 16 4.3.2 Wake Vortex Interaction Assessment Model (WIAM) ..................................................................... 16
5 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................................... 18
R-WAKE PUBLIC WEBSITE CONTENT ...................................................................................... 19 APPENDIX A
OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................................. 21
Background ................................................................................................................................................. 21 Proposed Solution ........................................................................................................................................ 22 Expected Outcomes and Impacts ................................................................................................................ 24
R-WAKE SOFTWARE TOOLBOX .............................................................................................. 26 APPENDIX B
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1 Introduction
1.1 Background and objectives
This deliverable describes the dissemination activities conducted by the R-WAKE project. The R-WAKE project (Wake Vortex Simulation And Analysis To Enhance En-Route Separation Management In Europe) aims at developing a simulation framework for investigation of the risks and hazards of potential wake vortex encounters in the en-route airspace for current and future operational scenarios, in order to assess the potential enhancements to the Separation Standards and Separation Management methods in Europe.
The R-WAKE project is funded by the SESAR Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 699247 under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. It addresses the SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research work-programme topic ER-07- 2015 – Separation Management and Separation Standards, within the area of advanced Air Traffic Services (ATS).
The objective of this deliverable is to summarize the dissemination and exploitation activities performed over the last two years.
1.2 Scope and Structure
The R-WAKE dissemination and exploitation activities can be grouped into three categories:
- Public website
- Publications
- Dissemination to SESAR
The public website is presented in section 2 of this deliverable. Section 3 lists the published papers and presentations and the exploitation activities of the R-WAKE consortium and R-WAKE partners are described in section 4.
1.3 Glossary of Terms and Acronyms in use
1.3.1 Acronyms table
Acronym Description Group
PMP Project Management Plan Management
Table 1-1 Table of acronyms in use
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2 R-WAKE public website
The project public website was established in September 2016. Main purpose of the website is to present the R-WAKE project to the public and to provide the main project outcomes. This section describes the setup of the website and its main content.
2.1 Technical setup
The website is accessible via the domain alias www.rwake-sesar2020.eu or rwake-sesar2020.eu. According to the Domain Name System, the domain is pointing to iff2.rz.tu-bs.de (IN CNAME iff2.rz.tu-bs.de), a virtual server hosted by the TUBS IT department. In February 2018, the website was ported to a new server due to a change in the content management system of all TUBS web servers, thus the domain alias is now pointing to iff3.rz.tu-bs.de (IN CNAME iff3.rz.tu-bs.de).
The website uses WordPress© as Content Management System. A unique layout had been developed, which is automatically adjusted based on the recipients viewer or browsing software.
Figure 1: R-WAKE public website main page (desktop view)
In the desktop view, the public websites provides a menubar on each site at the top containing the topics “Home”, “Overview”, “Publications”, Consortium” and “Contact” (see Figure 1). In mobile view, the content is automatically adapted to screen size and the navigation is accessible via a hamburger button (see Figure 2).
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Figure 2: R-WAKE public website main page (mobile view)
2.2 Content
The starting page of the public website contains links to a project description and the R-WAKE consortium. The main body contains short text teasers on the project background, the R-WAKE proposed solution and the projects expected impact. The corresponding links lead to the full text section of the “Overview” page. The complete text is listed in Appendix A. A dedicated “Consortium” page is presenting the R-WAKE project partners. Via drop down menus, a describing text for each partner and a link to each partners own website is accessible. Another page is supposed to share publications and results originating from the R-WAKE project with the public. Via a “Contact” page, additional information can be requested from the project.
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3 Dissemination activities according to PMP
The R-WAKE Project Management Plan (PMP) lists a series of conferences intended to disseminate results from the R-WAKE project. The current status of those dissemination activities is listed in Table 2.
Table 2: Status of R-WAKE dissemination activities according to PMP
Code Name Status
WP6-COM-PUBWEB Communication to General Public : RWAKE Public Website
website established in September 2016. Update with R-WAKE results presentation in progress
WP6-COM-ATM-SID-2016 SESAR Innovation Days 2016
Paper submitted but rejected:
Ruiz, S. et al.; R-WAKE project: Wake Vortex Simulation and Analysis to Enhance En-Route Separation Management
Adobe Acrobat Document
Poster submitted and presented:
Adobe Acrobat Document
WP6-COM-ATM-SID-2017 SESAR Innovation Days 2017
Paper submitted and presented:
Melgosa, M. et al.; A Novel Framework to Assess the Wake Vortex
Hazards Risk Supported by Aircraft in En-Route Operations
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Adobe Acrobat Document
Presentation:
Melgosa, M. et al.; A Novel Framework to Assess the Wake Vortex
Hazards Risk Supported by Aircraft in En-Route Operations
Adobe Acrobat Document
WP6-WakeNet-USA-2017-Q3 WakeNet-USA-2017-Spring
Participation cancelled by consortium decision due to lack of results maturity
WP6-WakeNet-USA-2017-Q1 WakeNet-USA-2017-Autumm
Meeting postponed to February 2018 due to FAA’s short term budgetary uncertainties
February 2018 meeting postponed until further notice due to uncertainties in US appropriation bill signature
Slot for R-WAKE project and results presentation reserved and confirmed
WP6-WakeNet-USA-2018-Q1 WakeNet-USA-2018-Spring
No official date published, yet.
WP6-DIS&EXP Dissemination & Exploitation activities
Presentation to SESAR Scientific Committee:
Busto, J. et al., R-WAKE SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research Project - Project Presentation to SESAR Scientific Committee meeting
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Code Name Status
Adobe Acrobat Document
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4 Exploitation
In this section, IPR foreground aspects are described and listed per consortium, topic and partner.
4.1 R-WAKE consortium
PURPOSE: The R-WAKE consortium developed a software toolbox which is able to simulate:
- Current air traffic in the ECAC area
- Future air traffic in the ECAC area including 4D-trajectories
- The deterministic and probabilistic decay and transport behaviour of wake vortices of selected simulated aircraft
Furthermore, the software toolbox is able to identify:
- Aircraft pairs where wake vortex encounters might occur
Furthermore, the software toolbox is able to:
- Determine meteorological effects at the time and place of potential aircraft wake vortex encounters based on meteorological databases or meteorological forecast or simulation
Furthermore, the software toolbox is able to:
- Assess the impact of a wake vortex encounter based on geometry, current wake vortex strength and orientation and encounter aircraft characteristics
- Determine the frequency and risk of wake vortex encounters for different traffic scenarios
For further details of the toolbox components see Appendix Appendix B.
HOW THE FOREGROUND MIGHT BE EXPLOITED, WHEN AND BY WHOM: The knowledge might be used by consortium members from educational entities for educational purposes. The developed software toolbox might by further used and enhanced in following European projects.
IPR EXPLOITATION MEASURES TAKEN OR INTENDED: None so far
FURTHER RESEARCH NECESSARY, IF ANY:
Current Technology Readiness Level: TRL 4
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Further research necessary, if any: Further development is required to provide a system demonstration in an operational environment (TRL5) and prototype (TRL 7)
Future development work: -
POTENTIAL / EXPECTED IMPACT: The software toolbox might be used in a realtime system for the online prediction of needed aircraft en-route separation if embedded and connected to real-time traffic and meteorological data.
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4.2 TUBS
4.2.1 Wake Vortex Simulator
PURPOSE: TUBS has further developed a software to calculate the wake vortex transport and decay based on traffic and meteorologic data via the usage of multiple wake vortex transport and decay models and to provide characteristic values to construct a 3-dimensional time dependent deterministic wake vortex trajectory (in WGS-84 coordinates) including wake vortex strength and four 3-dimensional time dependent characteristic probabilistic trajectory envelopes (in WGS-84 coordinates) including wake vortex strength.
HOW THE FOREGROUND MIGHT BE EXPLOITED, WHEN AND BY WHOM: The knowledge will be used by TUBS for educational purposes. The developed software might by further used and enhanced in following European or national projects.
IPR EXPLOITATION MEASURES TAKEN OR INTENDED: None so far
FURTHER RESEARCH NECESSARY, IF ANY:
Current Technology Readiness Level: TRL 5
Further research necessary, if any: Further research is required to provide a system prototype demonstration in an operational environment (TRL7)
Future development work: -
POTENTIAL / EXPECTED IMPACT: The software might be used in a realtime system for the calculation of wake vortex behaviour in case it is connected via TCP/IP to the needed traffic and meteorological data.
4.2.2 Wake Vortex Encounter calculation tool enhancement
PURPOSE: TUBS has further refined its 6-degree-of-freedom tool for calculating the time dependent impact of an aircraft during a wake vortex encounter to take additionally into account:
- The transport and decay of a wake vortex generated by another aircraft
- The wake vortex induced velocity profile along the lifting surfaces of the encountering aircraft calculated by additionally implemented models
HOW THE FOREGROUND MIGHT BE EXPLOITED, WHEN AND BY WHOM: The knowledge will be used by TUBS for educational purposes. The developed software might by further used and
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enhanced in following European or national projects.
IPR EXPLOITATION MEASURES TAKEN OR INTENDED: None so far
FURTHER RESEARCH NECESSARY, IF ANY:
Current Technology Readiness Level: TRL 3
Further research necessary, if any: Migration of the software to advanced programming language is needed to enable its usage in an environment closer to operational usage.
Future development work: -
POTENTIAL / EXPECTED IMPACT: -
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4.3 UPC
4.3.1 Traffic Simulator
PURPOSE: The Traffic Simulator consists in three main components: Traffic and Trajectory Planner, WVE Region Finder and WVE Prediction.
UPC has further refined its Traffic and Trajectory Planner. The tool can simulate the traffic:
- Reproducing historical data
- Optimising the trajectories, taking into consideration the meteorological conditions as well as the available routes.
In addition, the Traffic and Trajectory planner can identify conflicts and provide a simple resolution based in heading changes
The WVE Region Finder can detect pairs of trajectories closer enough for creating a potential wake vortex encounter.
The WVE Prediction uses the trajectories form the Traffic and Trajectory Planner and the WV 4D tubes from the Wake Vortex Simulator in order to identify which pairs of trajectories should be evaluated with WIAM and calculates the inputs.
HOW THE FOREGROUND MIGHT BE EXPLOITED, WHEN AND BY WHOM: The knowledge will be used by UPC for educational purposes. The developed software might by further used and enhanced in following European or national projects.
IPR EXPLOITATION MEASURES TAKEN OR INTENDED: None so far
FURTHER RESEARCH NECESSARY, IF ANY:
Current Technology Readiness Level:
- Traffic and Trajectory Planner (TRL 5)
- WVE Region Finder (TRL 4)
- WVE Prediction (TRL 3)
Further research necessary, if any: Enhancing the resolution logic of the conflict resolution.
Future development work: Better integration between the different software components
POTENTIAL / EXPECTED IMPACT: -
4.3.2 Wake Vortex Interaction Assessment Model (WIAM)
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PURPOSE: UPC has created a 6-degree-of-freedom tool for calculating the time dependent impact of an aircraft during a wake vortex encounter to take additionally into account:
- The transport and decay of a wake vortex generated by another aircraft
- The wake vortex induced velocity profile along the lifting surfaces of the encountering aircraft calculated by additionally implemented models
This tool is based in the models of the Wake Vortex Encounter calculation tool from TUBS and it is the tool used in the R-WAKE project.
HOW THE FOREGROUND MIGHT BE EXPLOITED, WHEN AND BY WHOM: The knowledge will be used by UPC for educational purposes. The developed software might by further used and enhanced in following European or national projects.
IPR EXPLOITATION MEASURES TAKEN OR INTENDED: NDA has been signed with TUBS for protecting the intellectual property.
FURTHER RESEARCH NECESSARY, IF ANY:
Current Technology Readiness Level: TRL 3
Further research necessary, if any:
- Include more aircraft types
- Improve the inertia matrix models
Future development work: Migration of the software to advanced programming language is needed to enable its usage in an environment closer to operational usage.
POTENTIAL / EXPECTED IMPACT: -
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5 References
[1]. Busto, J. et al.; Project Management Plan; R-WAKE Deliverable D1.1; 25th JULY 2016
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R-WAKE public website content Appendix A
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Overview:
Overview
The R-WAKE project (Wake Vortex Simulation And Analysis To Enhance En-Route
Separation Management In Europe) aims at developing a simulation framework for
investigation of the risks and hazards of potential wake vortex encounters in the en-route
airspace for current and futuristic operational scenarios, in order to assess the potential
enhancements to the Separation Standards and Separation Management methods in Europe.
The R-WAKE project is funded by the SESAR Joint Undertaking undergrant agreement No
699247 under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovationprogramme.It
addresses the SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research work-programme topic ER-07- 2015 –
Separation Management and Separation Standards, within the area of advanced Air Traffic
Services (ATS).
The first key step in the project is to elaborate and consolidate the high level objective with
experts into a precise definition of research questions and study scenarios, which shall lead to
a proposal of an R-WAKE Concept description and validation strategy.
The second key step is the development the R-WAKEATM Simulation System Framework,
referred in short as the R-WAKESystem, which shall be a realistic fast time simulation and
analysis method and tool to enable the investigation of the research questions of the project
and study several scenarios, that is, to perform R-WAKEconcept validation. The R-
WAKESystem shall be developed by means of the integration of pre-existing simulation
components and tools in the background of the consortium partners: 1) Weather Simulator by
GTD, 2) Traffic Simulator by UPC, 3) Wake Vortex Simulator by TUBS, and 4) Safety and
Robustness Analysis Tools by DBLU.
The third key step is to address the research questions by executing the planned simulations
for the different study scenarios, and to perform the corresponding safety and robustness
analyses. The execution of these simulations and their analysis shall be done in a concurrent
and iterative way, thus generating progressively new Air Traffic Management knowledge in
terms of potential enhancement to en-route separation standards and methods.
A fourth and final key step is an assessment of the proposed R-WAKEConcept in terms of
cost- benefit and technical implementability, from the perspective of Air Traffic Management
performance and the Air Traffic ManagementMaster Plan roadmap, with the potential impacts
on en-route Concepts of Operation, en-route Separation Standards & Methods and
implementation enablers.
Background
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In the terminal area the dangers of wake vortex encounters are well known and airborne
separation minima defined by ICAO are specifically designed to minimise the underlying
hazards, especially near the runway. Nowadays wake vortexhazard is one of the most limiting
factors in airport capacity, thus many efforts have been madeto find new ways of re-
categorising aircraft according to their wake vortexand new procedures such as Time Based
Separations (TBS) have been designed considering wake vortexbehaviour and duration
allowingAir Traffic Control and flights to be more precise with the synchronisation of the
landing traffic.
In en-route operations the dangers have been traditionally considered negligible since the
probability of a wake vortexencounter has been low up to now andthe severity of a possible
encounter has often low impact. Nevertheless, several factors that may cause the increase of
both the probability of encounter and itsseverity are changing in the context of the Air Traffic
Managementevolution as proposed by SESAR: for the next decades highertraffic density is
expected, as well as more heterogeneity in the aircraft mixand new concepts of operations
may be introduced such as the concept of Free-Routing, or the potential introduction of
continuous operations for all the phases of flight. Thus, in the context of the future Air Traffic
Management proposed by SESAR for 2020+ including Trajectory Based Operations, some
new wake vortexseparation rules and new strategic separation methods for all phases of flight
(in particular for en-route) will be required. They would be integrated in future collaborative
flight-planning and dynamic Demand and Capacity Balance (dDCB) activities at EU-wide Air
Traffic Management network to assure harmonisation between all the stakeholder interests
and the enhancement of all Key Performance Areas of Air Traffic Management of interest, in
particular safety, capacity, Air Traffic Management cost efficiency and flight efficiency.
Proposed Solution
The R-WAKE project proposes a simulation framework to perform trajectory and wake
vortex predictions in order to predict potential severe wake vortex encounters in the en-route
phase of flights across Europe. Such simulations will be used to determine new wake vortex
separation standards and to propose new mechanisms for the effective strategic separation of
traffic.
The high-level architecture of the R-Wake simulation framework consists of four main
modules:
1. Weather Simulator: Generates realistic weather scenarios to feed both the Traffic
Simulator and the Wake Vortex Simulator.
2. Traffic Simulator – Trajectory Planner: Generates and simulates traffic scenarios
based on real or future traffic demand and on weather data fed by the Weather
Simulator. The output trajectories feed the traffic analyser with realistic trajectories.
o Traffic Simulator – Wake Encounter Region Finder (WERF): This sub-
module identifies regions of airspace (volumes) in which potential wake vortex
encounters could occur. Since the simulation of precise wake vortices for all
the ECAC-wide flight trajectories requires a high computational burden, the
simulation of wake vortex will be limited to those regions that have some
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likeliness of hazardous wake vortex encounter therein. These regions could be
identified by detecting trajectories closer than a certain distance from each
other. The output of this sub-module feeds to the WakeVortex Simulator and
Traffic Planner modules with the regions of risk and with the segments of
flight trajectories crossing such hazardous regions.
3. Wake Vortex Simulator: This module simulates realistic wake vortex transport and
decay given the flight parameters of each trajectory (aircraft mass, speed, path, etc.)
and the weather for the airspace region of interest. As an output for feeding the Wake
Encounter Prediction System, this module will generate a simplified macro-model of
the vortices in which the stochastic behaviour of the vortex (position, size and
strength) can be represented as a 4-dimensional tube.
o Traffic Simulator – WV Encounter Prediction System (WEPS): This sub-
module receives the discrete model of the 4-dimensional tubes from the Wake
VortexSimulator and the trajectory segments from the Wake Encounter Region
Finder system and then crosses all the information to perform a probabilistic
analysis and predict potential encounters. If an encounter is detected, the
system will obtain the expected strength of the vortex and assess the severity
of the vortex in relation to the parameters of the affected flight (aircraft, speed,
geometry of the encounter, etc.). If the severity index is over a pre-defined
threshold the system will give a warning to the Traffic Planner in order to
apply the correspondingseparation measures and also will record the event for
the safety analysis post-process.
o Traffic Simulator – Traffic Planner: This sub-module is fed with the
contextual information of the predicted wake vortex encounters. The system
will propose a new conflict-free traffic planning with a global optimisation
approach. In that way the R-WAKE framework will be capable of providing
due separation for all the flights affected by a wake encounter prediction. The
system will be capable of managing the potential cascading aspects of the
resolution manoeuvres on EU-wide level and to enablea collaborative flight
planning mode, ideally participated by the airspace users, Air Navigation
Service Providers, airports and the network manager. The aim of the tool when
enabled for Trajectory Based Operations is to deliver “optimal/negotiated”
traffic trajectories strategically de-conflicted and collaboratively allocated in
such a way the sector capacities can be increased to support the different future
concept of operations and enhance the current safety and capacity levels.
4. Safety & Robustness Analysis: This module will perform a risk analysis and will
generate knowledge from the results obtained with the scenario simulations. As part of
the knowledge generated new separation standards and methods will be proposed.The
risk analysis will be progressively performed during the project by firstly analysing
scenarios close to the reality of current operations (fixed route structure and flight
levels scheme), passing through intermediate scenarios (e.g. free-routing) up to
simulating and assessing feasible futuristic scenarios in which the levels of demand,
the aircraft mix and the concept of operations will be close to the ones expected and
defined by SESAR 2020+.
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Expected Outcomes and Impacts
The main outcomes expected in this project are:
1. Development of a wake vortex encounter hazard severity baseline and tolerability
matrix;
2. Development of a simulator for testing different separation standards;
3. A database of simulation results that will provide enough evidence to propose new
separation standards for future research and implementation activities;
4. An evidence-based proposal for either maintaining current separation standards or
adopting new ones; and
5. An assessment of the feasibility and impact of the concept on Air Traffic Management
with an initial validation strategy and outline implementation plan.
The R-WAKE concept is not covered in the current Air Traffic Management Master Plan,
however, if the concept is shown as feasible/beneficial, then it might have a relevant impact
on the SESAR concept since a new operational improvement might be includedin the
programme after the project’s work.
The evolution and results of the research described will be presented in future papers and
conferences thus sharing most of the knowledge generated, which will be available at the end
of the project on behalf of the scientific and practitioner Air Traffic Managementcommunity
and might have a positive impact on the future Air Traffic Managementresearch and
developments projects.
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R-WAKE software toolbox Appendix B
Component D4.2 Release 2 Report comments Updated with WP5 final status
Availability format
WIAM WIAM Model
Wake Interaction Assessment Model (WIAM).
WIAM computes En-Route 3D WVE flight dynamics. In release 2 there have been model refinements with respect to 1st release, and further cross-validation with TUBS similar software, (reported in deliverable D4.2 and last update in D4.3).
WIAM provides the following variables describing the upset: bank angle, altitude change, rate of climb, change of airspeed and load factor.
Detailed illustration of WIAM use is in D5.1-section 3.1 (Research Step 1), and D5.2-section 3.3.
MATLAB standalone with parallel computing cluster behind, by UPC, available internally.
WIAM Output Data Charting
Scripts that support the Safety Analysis assessing worst case encounter patterns, by clustering based on upset magnitude, large sets of simulations performed by WIAM.
MATLAB standalone by UPC, available internally.
WIAM PFD display
A realistic avionics Primary Flight Display (PFD) implementation for pilots to see the dynamic behavior of the upset computed by WIAM.
Standalone tool by UPC, available internally.
TRS TRS-TP Trajectory and Traffic Planner (TP). There are two independent variant versions of TRS.TP, each one oriented to the Task 5.1 research steps of i) step 2.1 study of conditioned individual risk, aka, macro-CIR, and ii) step 2.2 study of systemic risk, aka, macro SAR/SER.
TRS-TP for macro-CIR: this module delivers pairs of trajectories following a CIR DoE: design of experiments of synthetic pair of conditioned individual encoutners. See D5.1 section 3.1 and 3.2 (Research Step 2.1).
TRS-TP for macro-SER/SAR: this module is the initial concept of traffic planner oriented to perform ECAC or
Online server by UPC, with a parallel computing cluster behind, usable through R-WAKE FWM data exchange protocols.
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Airspace Sector studies of systemic risk, i.e., frequency assessment. TRS.TP for SER/SAR has to mode of operation: ’historic traffic play’, and ‘synthetic trajectories generation’.
TRS.TP for SER/SAR for ‘historic traffic play’ reproduces the trajectories from traffic files from Eurocontrol DDR2 files. This mode of use has been applied in the EVAIR validation exercise (see D4.3).
TRS.TP for SER/SAR for ‘synthetic trajectories generation’ produced trajectories files based on traffic patterns, using the ATC separation module (aka, Conflict Resolution) developed for the 1st release. Once all trajectories of an input configuration file are generated, all aircraft pairs infringing a given and configurable minimum separation criterion are detected (WERF1 function), and then the trajectory of one of the aircraft is locally modified in order to achieve the separation minima. This is the Conflict Resolution (CR) function.
TRS-WERF
Wake Vortex Encounter Region Finder (WERF) has been split in two parts: one inside TRS.TP (aka WERF-1), and the other inside TRS.WEPS (aka WERF-2).
WERF-1 function inside TRS.TP-for-SAR/SER provides a conservative detection based on WV habitation area parameters, like 5NM in horizontal or 1000 feet in vertical. It represents the function of Conflict Detection of the TRS.TP that activates the WV simulator and the WEPS function.
WERF-2: it a part inside the TRS.WEPS-for-SAR/SER that uses the WV geometry provided by WVS (WVER file 4D tube data) to confirm that the candidate encounter is within the WV-trajectory envelop, and activates the upset computation with the WIAM module, and the severity classification with the Severity Matrix with Upset Parameter Thresholds (SMUP).
Embedded in TRS.TP and TRS.WEPS
TRS-WEPS
Wake Vortex Encounter Prediction System. This component embeds the following key parts:
- WERF-2 coupled with WIAM input calculation module: first, WERF-2 is a geometry-based
Online server by UPC, usable with R-WAKE FWM protocols
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confirmation of the candidate encounter provided by TRS.TP/WER-1 (based bounding box habitation area), using the WV-trajectory envelope computed by WVS. Then the vortex circulation to be used by WIAM is computed, embedding Reasonable Worst Case assumptions (parameters) (further described in D5.1 report).
- WIAM tool, and it automatically process all potential wake vortex encounters detected by the RF using the WV-object information provided by the WVS and a given severity matrix.
WVS server
Wake Vortex Simulator release2: Additional wake vortex models has been implemented, and internally, adapted core to usage multiple wake vortex prediction models. Interfaces to WEPS and WXS have been improved. A handling software was developed to request the weather data based on a given trajectory (AER file). The handling software is parsing the weather reply (WDR file) to the WVS. The WVS is calculating the wake vortex behaviour and providing the output to the Wake Vortex trajectory file (WVTR file).
Online server by TUBS, usable with R-WAKE FWM protocols.
WVS WXS-DB Weather Database is ready, and specific data product are loaded for 10 specific days selected from EVAIR set having known WV-turbulence occurrences, to support system validation, and can be also for scenarios research.
Accessible through the WXS Server
WXS WXS Server
Weather Server Engine and service (system interface protocols). The WXS is available on-line according to the R-WAKE framework operation protocol based on the XML file-based weather data query and response (WDQ and WDR).
Online server by GTD, usable with R-WAKE FWM protocol
WXS HMI
WXS Weather Simulation Planning - User Interface is available internally as a desktop tool to explore and analyse weather data contents.
C++ Standalone by GTD available internally.
FWM FWM-MNG
Integrated Simulator FWM manager User Interface Application (java standalone) is available and tested in full integrated simulation workflow.
Java standalone available from GTD.
FWM-SCM
FWM System Component Manager Application is provided, which has been deployed in each service oriented simulation components (TRS.TP, TRS.WEPS, WVS,
Java standalone, available from GTD.
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and WXS), so they are ready on-line to perform fully integrated simulations according to the workflow embedded in the FWM.MNG application.
FWM-SDB
The Simulation Data Base is the online File System Database available via internet Cloudsync protocol (driver freely available from Synology site). Note that WebDav protocol was initial choice but was not performing well, so we moved to Synology Cloudsync protocol, equivalent to a dropbox-like, which proved to work well.
Online server by GTD, usable with R-WAKE FWM protocol.
General Process
SRA as general method and process component fully described in section 4 of this document, as a reference guideline to be applied in WP5.
Method and Process provided hereby in D4.2
SRA SRA Micro SMUP
Severity Matrix with Upset Parameter Thresholds is the main outcome of the micro-analysis and a configuration input for the TRS.WEPS. The matrix can be object of revision and study.
Developed during Expert Panel 1
CIR SHA Viewer tool
CIR-SHA Viewer is a MATLAB tool developed by GTD to explore the Conditioned Individual Risk (CIR) simulation results database, and chart Suspected Hazard Area (SHA).
MATLAB standalone application distributed together with the CIR DB as part of deliverable D5.1.
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