Augmented Reality for the Control Tower: The RETINA Concept

Masotti, Nicola; Bagassi, Sara; Crescenzio, Francesca De

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40621-3_32

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“…Taking the strong connection to German ATC into account, the process of identifying different RTMs is not completed and has to be updated and extended to different procedures that exist throughout Europe’s different Air Navigation Service Providers. The necessity of this process is increased by the permanent transformation of air traffic control concepts, for example, the introduction of resilient synthetic vision to the tower (Masotti, Bagassi, & De Crescenzio, 2016).…”

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How to Evaluate Remote Tower Metrics in Connection With Weather Observations

Friedrich

Möhlenbrink

2018

Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors

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Abstract. Owing to the different approaches for remote tower operation, a standardized set of indicators is needed to evaluate the technical implementations at a task performance level. One of the most influential factors for air traffic control is weather. This article describes the influence of weather metrics on remote tower operations and how to validate them against each other. Weather metrics are essential to the evaluation of different remote controller working positions. Therefore, weather metrics were identified as part of a validation at the Erfurt-Weimar Airport. Air traffic control officers observed weather events at the tower control working position and the remote control working position. The eight participating air traffic control officers answered time-synchronized questionnaires at both workplaces. The questionnaires addressed operationally relevant weather events in the aerodrome. The validation experiment targeted the air traffic control officer’s ability to categorize and judge the same weather event at different workplaces. The results show the potential of standardized indicators for the evaluation of performance and the importance of weather metrics in relation to other evaluation metrics.

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How to Evaluate Remote Tower Metrics in Connection With Weather Observations

Friedrich

Möhlenbrink

2018

Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors

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“…Reference source not found. [1]. In the EID framework, the AH is used to determine what kinds of information should be displayed on the system interface and how the information should be arranged.…”

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“…To tackle this problem, the project Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision (RETINA) proposes the use augmented reality technologies [1]. It evaluates and challenges the different innovative solutions that can be applied in a control tower by using the Ecological Interface Design (EID).…”

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Evaluation of Augmented Reality Tools for the provision of Tower Air Traffic Control using An Ecological Interface Design

Ellejmi¹,

Bagassi

Piastra

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2018 Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference

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One of the major problems faced by the growth of air traffic in the last decade is the limited capacity of the runway especially during low visibility procedures (LVP) due to fog and bad weather. To solve this issue, the project "Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision" (RETINA) project, a two-years exploratory research project, under SESAR2020 program, proposes to use new Synthetic Vision (SV) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies for the tower controllers to allow them to conduct safe operations under any Meteorological Conditions while maintaining a high runway throughput, equal to good visibility. In this paper we introduce the Ecological Interface Design (EID) as a methodology to investigate the potential and applicability of SV tools and Virtual/Augmented Reality (V/AR) display techniques for the Air Traffic Control (ATC) service provision by the airport control tower. We explain how the EID framework can be used in RETINA, we experiment the framework on a suitable airport and we provide the EID results comparing normal and LVP conditions with operations using RETINA technologies.

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“…Retina is a SESAR Horizon 2020 Exploratory Research European Project dealing with Augmented Reality for airport control towers. The project's main aim is to investigate the applicability and the potential benefits, with regard to safety and efficiency aspects, of Augmented Reality display techniques for the Air Traffic Control (ATC) service provision in the airport control tower [ [10]] [11][12] [13]. The first phase of the project was devoted to the selection of the display technology for the application and it was performed through the active participation of potential end users.…”

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Augmented reality technology selection based on integrated QFD-AHP model

Bagassi

Crescenzio

Piastra

2019

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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In the last decade, Augmented Reality has become increasingly popular. As improved performances are gathered in terms of mature hardware and software tools, we are observing the stemming of a huge number of applications of this technology both in the entertainment and in the industrial domains. On the one hand, such applications are usually claimed to bring benefits in terms of productivity or enhancement of the human's capability to perform tasks. On the other hand, researchers and developers seem not to adequately consider the different meanings that AR assumes when implemented through visualization devices that can differ significantly in nature and in their capability to provide a mixed real-virtual scenario. In this paper, we describe a user-centred method based on an integrated QFD-AHP approach to select the best visualization display technology with regard to a specific application context. The aim is to establish a repeatable and documented process for the identification of the technology that best suits and mitigates the acceptability risks of the transition from a legacy working environment to an AR based operational environment. The method has been developed in the framework of the RETINA (Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision) project involving the end users, in this case, air traffic controllers. Nevertheless, it can be generalised and applied to other contexts of use. Furthermore, in order to be resilient to the fast, technological development in AR, it can be used to update the results as improvements arise in the performance level of the display devices in a specific technology.

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Augmented Reality for the Control Tower: The RETINA Concept

Cited by 8 publications

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How to Evaluate Remote Tower Metrics in Connection With Weather Observations

How to Evaluate Remote Tower Metrics in Connection With Weather Observations

Evaluation of Augmented Reality Tools for the provision of Tower Air Traffic Control using An Ecological Interface Design

Augmented reality technology selection based on integrated QFD-AHP model

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