Artificial Intelligence (part 1/2)

22 July, 9.30 - 11.00 CEST

As air travel tentatively resumes, the move to digitalised ATM infrastructure is seen as critical for making aviation more scalable, economically sustainable, environmentally efficient, predictable and resilient. Against this backdrop, the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) is organising a series of webinars to present the portfolio of SESAR innovations that will make this digital transformation possible.

The rise of new Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning technologies provides an opportunity for a fundamental change in the automation landscape. Algorithms based on data-derived knowledge can result in increased ATM performance, safety and resilience but this also comes at the cost of reduced transparency.

This webinar will look at some of the existing theory around AI/machine learning in ATM and will explain how we are moving towards higher levels of automation in a safety critical environment. We will start with a tangible example of how AI has been able to ensure safety while also increasing runway throughput and resilience for arrival traffic flows. The webinar will also explore how we can close the gap between human factors and technology, advancing towards a hybrid human machine collaboration. To complete the picture, the webinar will provide the latest update on insights related to trustworthiness and explainability in the safety critical context of ATM.

Higher levels of automation in Time Based Separation during approach

Andy Shand, Head of Queue & Capacity Management Solutions, NATS

Claire Pugh, Wake Optimisation concepts and Analysis Lead, NATS

An overview of Artificial Intelligence methods

Jesus Garcia, Professor Computer Science, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

The human machine hybrid approach

Marc Baumgartner, Air Traffic Controller, IFATCA

Perspective on Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence

Guillaume Soudain, Software Senior Expert, EASA

Moderator: Ruben Flohr, ATM Expert, SESAR Joint Undertaking

Artificial Intelligence (part 2/2)

24 July, 9.30 - 11.00 CEST

The use of advanced technologies to modernise aviation and ATM is at the heart of SESAR’s digitalisation strategy. The SJU has funded a number of research projects which have applied AI to address a plethora of issues in ATM, aiming to reshape the future of aviation. A selection of exploratory and industrial research project results will be presented, providing a flavour of concrete benefits AI is starting to bring to aviation.

Big data analytics to study intermodal passenger behaviour

Ricardo Herranz, Project lead BigData4ATM, Nommon

Machine learning in speech recognition

Hartmut Helmke, Project Leader, DLR

Aneta Cerna, Project leader, ANS of the Czech Republic

Deep neural networks in complexity management

Seddik Belkoura, Data Science Specialist, MUAC, EUROCONTROL

Machine learning to improve the take-off time prediction

Ramon Dalmau Codina, Data Scientist, EUROCONTROL

Moderator: Ruben Flohr, ATM Expert, SESAR Joint Undertaking

Digitalising Europe's infrastructure

30 June 15.00-16.00 : The European ATM Master Plan in a nutshell

This webinar focus on the recently-adopted European air traffic management (ATM) Master Plan, which sets the vision and direction for developing, delivering and deploying the technologies and standards needed to make the European airspace the most efficient, safe and environmentally friendly sky to fly in the world.

This webinar highlighted the major changes in the latest edition of the Master Plan and how it will:

• Ensure that European ATM infrastructure is fit for the digital age, making air transport smarter, more sustainable, connected and accessible to all.
• Accommodate the next generation of aircraft, which will be cleaner, quieter and more autonomous, as well as drones and other new air vehicles.
• Strengthen the competitiveness of EU air transport, drone and ATM services markets to ensure economic growth.

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Nurturing Young Talent

29 June 10.00-11.00 : Recognising excellence through the SESAR Young Scientist Award

The SESAR Young Scientist Award has been running since 2012 as a mechanism to recognise young scientists with high potential contributing to the scientific research in the field of ATM and aviation.

This webinar touched base with some of the previous winners of the award, hear how their research has developed since winning the award and get their advice on how our industry can nurture, attract and retain young talent.

During this webinar, Gianluca Di Flumeri, who won the award in 2018 for a ground-breaking method for evaluating controllers’ mental workload using brain activity measurements elaborated on why researching the human factor in ATM is fundamental for the safety, efficiency and sustainability of aviation. Read more about Gianluca’s research.

Our 2015 winner, Floris Herrema, who at the time was a EUROCONTROL trainee working on “Compression on final approach and Time Based Separation for Optimised Runway Delivery.” helped enhance the understanding of the behaviour of aircraft on final approach. It has a direct impact on the safety of time-based separation (TBS) as well as the RECAT 2 reduction in wake vortex separation between pairs of aircraft on final approach. Read more about Floris’ research.

Manuel Soler, winner of the 2013 award for his work on ‘Commercial Aircraft Trajectory Optimization based on Multiphase Mixed Integer Optimal Control’ explained how his research has evolved since winning the award. Today, Manuel has become more actively engaged with SESAR. Read more about Manuel’s current research within the SESAR programme.

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30 June 11.00-12.00 : A look back on the Digital Sky Challenge

This webinar gave attendees another chance to hear from the winners of the Digital Sky Challenge, jointly organised by ACI EUROPE, SESAR Joint Undertaking and Athens International Airport on 2-4 December 2019 in Athens.

During the hackathon, for the first time ever, the entire European aviation industry – airports, airlines, aviation organisations and aviation-related business partners - joined forces to make an extensive dataset available to a group of young passionate coders. The aim? Create new digital solutions for aviation, particularly focused on streamlining the passenger experience, improving the environmental performance of Europe’s airspace and enhancing safety.

The event brought together 52 young tech-talents from 11 European countries competing in 12 teams to create breakthrough prototype solutions to address 3 different challenges: 1. Streamlining the passenger experience, 2. Improving the Environment, 3. Enhancing safety – with the support of several key partners (1). 3 winners were selected:

• Innov’ATM, winners of the Passenger Experience challenge
• Eco-Travelers by Sopra Steria, winners of the Environment challenge
• JBM, winners of the Safety challenge

Find out more information on the winning projects and the Digital Sky Challenge

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and hear from these innovative winning projects, understand how they came up with their novel solutions as well as learn what opportunities they have had to further develop their solutions over the last 6 months.

Exploring the boundaries of ATM

23 June, 10.00-11.00 : ATM architecture and CNS

Focussing on ATM architecture and CNS, this second webinar showcased the results of three SESAR JU exploratory research projects:

The Gateman project presented the results of their research on what measures could be deployed on most aircraft to manage GNSS signal threats, either on their own or in a collaboration with other aircraft.

Projects EvoATM and Domino researched how to improve modelling of ATM systems and their interactions. During the webinar, they will each showcase their results on how to best to measure these effects using metrics and how to simulate such models.

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15 June 11.00-12.00 : Project results on enabling trajectory-based operations

How can we better predict the volume, flexibility and complexity of traffic demand whilst also taking into account individual flights and network infrastructure? How do you integrate demand and capacity with flight centric solutions?

About 300 participants joined us on 15 June to hear the results of SJU’s exploratory research projects ADAPT and COTTON,

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U-space

SESAR JU members and partners recently brought to a close two years of research and development (R&D) on how to integrate safely and securely drones across Europe, within the framework of U-space, an initiative by the European Commission. Organised within the framework of the SESAR Digital Academy, these sessions presented the work of some of these projects addressing the concept of operations for U-space, critical communications, surveillance and tracking, information management and exchange, detect and avoid, and CNS technologies.

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28 April - From concept to reality

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28 April Taking up the U-space challenge

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30 April Demonstrating U-space

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