Best Professional Papers
Best of Conference
Mode N – A Promising Approach for Future Navigation
Steffen Marquard, Volker Görldt, Morten Grandt PhD, Felix Butsch PhD, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, Langen; Franz Madritsch PhD, Interdisciplinary Engineering Consultants, Madritsch Aicha vorm Wald; Frank Adam, Bundeswehr Technical Center for Aircraft and Aeronautical Equipment, Manching; Germany.
Mode N — Mode Navigation — is a new concept for a ground-based system to provide a navigation service for civil and military aviation jointly developed by German Air Navigation Service Provider DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), the Bundeswehr Technical Center for Aircraft and Aeronautical Equipment (WTD61), and an engineering partner Interdisciplinary Engineering Consultants Madritsch (IECM). Mode N is a terrestrial system based on secondary surveillance radar signal formats that
provides an Alternative Positioning, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) capability to backup global navigation satellite systems.
Track 1
Roadmap towards an ECAC-wide Flight Centric ATC Implementation
Carmo S. Kluenker, Tobias Finck, Institute of Flight Guidance – Pilot Assistance, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Braunschweig, Germany
The Flight Centric Air Traffic Control (FCA) concept describes a new approach to air traffic control (ATC) with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions while at the same time increasing airspace capacity. It is expected that the advantages of this concept increase with the size of the airspace in which it is applied. The feasibility of Flight centric ATC has already been demonstrated at area control center (ACC) level. Next, the potential and obstacles of implementing FCA across the airspace of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) states shall be investigated.
Track 2
Adaptable Graph Networks for Air Traffic Analysis Applications
Shelby S. Holdren, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD; Max Z. Li, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Max Z. Li, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Jonathan Hoffman, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
The U.S. National Airspace System (NAS), its interconnected operations, and resultant dynamics (e.g., flight delays, route configurations) can be understood at different scales. At the resolution of the entire NAS, a component (e.g., Denver Center)could be considered as one homogeneous node, with dependencies on other components (e.g., adjacent centers) and exogenous stakeholders (e.g., Air Traffic Control System Command Center, airline network operations centers). Understanding the connected behavior of the NAS in a data-driven and adaptive way is critical for rigorously determining whether interventions, strategic or tactical, were successful.
Track 3
Statistical Description of Multipath Components in Air-Ground Channels for Wireless Communications in Unmanned Aviation
Daniel M. Mielke, Dennis Becker, Michael Walter, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany
Unmanned aviation (UA), including both small drones in urban airspace, as well as larger unmanned airplanes, is one of the most popular topics in aviation these days. One of the key enablers for unmanned aviation is a secure and robust communication link between the air vehicle and the instance controlling and/or monitoring the air vehicle, e.g. a remote pilot. Naturally, parts of this communication link are wireless; here, we assume a terrestrial link between the air vehicle’s radio and the ground stations and a vehicle-to-vehicle communication link between drones.
Track 4
LDACS Flight Trials: Demonstration of ATS-B2, IPS, and Seamless Mobility
Thomas Gräupl, Daniel M. Mielke, Miguel A. Bellido-Manganell, Leonardus J.A. Jansen, Nils Mäurer, Ayten Gürbüz, Alexandra Filip-Dhaubhadel, Lukas Schalk, Dennis Becker, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; Stefan Kurz, Josef Meser, Freqentis AG, Vienna, Austria; Michal Skorepa, Honeywell International, Brno, Czech Republic; Fryderyk Wrobel, Airtel ATN, Dublin, Ireland; Kazuyuki Morioka, Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI), Tokyo, Japan
The current VHF communications infrastructure for air traffic management is struggling to keep up with growing traffic volume. To address this issue, a new digital aeronautical data link called L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications system (LDACS) has been introduced. To be considered for implementation the maturity of LDACS has to be advanced. To achieve the required technology readiness level of TRL6, SESAR project PJ33 developed a technological validation platform to conduct flight trials and verify the LDACS data link in a realistic setting.
Track 5
Mode N – A Promising Approach for Future Navigation
Steffen Marquard, Volker Görldt, Morten Grandt PhD, Felix Butsch PhD, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, Langen; Franz Madritsch PhD, Interdisciplinary Engineering Consultants, Madritsch Aicha vorm Wald; Frank Adam, Bundeswehr Technical Center for Aircraft and Aeronautical Equipment, Manching; Germany.
Mode N — Mode Navigation — is a new concept for a ground-based system to provide a navigation service for civil and military aviation jointly developed by German Air Navigation Service Provider DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), the Bundeswehr Technical Center for Aircraft and Aeronautical Equipment (WTD61), and an engineering partner Interdisciplinary Engineering Consultants Madritsch (IECM). Mode N is a terrestrial system based on secondary surveillance radar signal formats that provides an Alternative Positioning, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) capability to backup global navigation satellite systems.
Track 6
Trust Framework for Data Sharing between Industry and Government
Matthew Metcalfe, Jack Nager, Deloitte Consulting LLP; Steven Hacker, Industry Unpaid Fellow at Deloitte Consulting LLP, United States Navy, Arlington, VA, USA
The aviation sector is experiencing an exciting, perhaps unprecedented period of innovation and continued unprecedented levels of passenger and cargo travel. Emerging concepts such as Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), Data Centric National Airspace System (NAS), and Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) have the potential to revolutionize our air transportation system and deliver substantial safety and economic benefits. Emerging concepts further democratize our aviation system, expand the aviation stakeholder community and evolve the roles of industry, government and academia.
Best Student Papers
1st Place
Privacy-Preserving Implementation of an Auction Mechanism for ATFM Slot Swapping
Paul Feichtenschlager, Kevin Schuetz, Samuel Jaburek, Christoph G. Schuetz, Johannes Kepler University Linz; Eduard Gringinger, Frequentis AG; Austria
Air traffic flow management (ATFM) regulations during periods of reduced capacity result in flight delays and additional costs for airspace users (AUs). AUs would like to prioritize flights based on their preferences while protecting the confidentiality of such information. SlotMachine developed a privacy preserving marketplace for collaborative optimization of flight lists during ATFM regulations An auction mechanism incentivizes AUs to participate. Experiments using realistic synthetic datasets based on real-world samples demonstrate feasibility of the proposed implementation.
2nd Place
UAS Air-Risk Assessment in and Around Airports
Prasad Pothana, Joshua Joy, Paul Snyder (Associate Professor), Sreejith Vidhyadharan, University of North Dakota, USA
The paper describes an assessment tool for UAS collision risk with crewed aircraft in an Around airports. Simulations are conducted to model various fail-safe scenarios of UASs. A probabilistic approach is used to model UA paths that assign Gaussian distributions to the mean values of the UAS’s velocity, heading, and altitude.
3rd Place
Dynamic and Cooperative Optimization of Entry and Exit Points for Multiple Sectors in Free Route Airspace Considering Wind Forecasts
Jue Huang, Minghua Hu, Qi Gao, Yi Zhou, Xingyu Jiang, Lei Yang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
This paper describes a dynamic cooperative configuration method of defined entry and exit points for multiple sectors in a Free Route Airspace. It considers wind forecasts from the perspective of airspace traffic flow orderliness and flight performance based on real-time traffic demand for the FRA. The method is demonstrated in airspace in western China.