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

CANSO Asia Pacific Hanoi, Vietnam May 5, 2017

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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

$$

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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Source: Clipart Source: MITRE

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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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