RESEARCH GRANT SCHEME DELFT Contract reference number 08-120917-C EEC contact person: Garfield Dean Designing an HMI for ASAS in respect of situation awareness Ecological ASAS Interfaces 2011 Close-Out Report ir. Joost Ellerbroek, prof. dr. ir. Max Mulder July 14, 2011 Introduction This document gives a close-out overview of the activities for the project Designing an HMI for ASAS in respect of situation awareness, which started July 1st, 2008. The following section gives a list of deliverables, a list of publications of this work, as well as a list of locations and events where this work has been presented, and other work that has been done in support of this project. 1
1 Deliverables Progress report, Nov 2008 EUROCONTROL workshop publication + presentation Towards an Ecological Four-Dimensional Separation Assistance Display Progress summary 2009 Progress report, May 2010 Journal paper Design of an Airborne Three-Dimensional Separation Assistance Display, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part A Scientific seminar 2011 (January 21, 2011), Designing for Situation Awareness the Ecological Flight Deck 2011 Evaluation of a Separation Assistance Display in a Multi-Actor Experiment Close-out report 2011 2 Publications 2008 2011 M. Visser, S. B. J. van Dam, M. Mulder, and M. M. van Paassen, Towards an Ecological Design of a 4-Dimensional Separation Assistance Interface, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Centered Processes (HCP-2008), Workshop Supervisory Control in Critical Systems Management, Delft, The Netherlands, June 8-12, 2008 Towards a Four-Dimensional Separation Assistance Cockpit Display, Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton OH, USA, April 2009. Towards an Ecological Four-Dimensional Self-Separation Assistance Display, Proceedings of the 2009 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Chicago IL, USA, August 2009. Workshop paper J. Ellerbroek, M. Visser, S. B. J. van Dam, M. Mulder, M. M. van Paassen, Towards an Ecological Four-Dimensional Separation Assistance Display, Proceedings of the 8th Innovative Research Workshop & Exhibition, Brétigny sur Orge, France, December 2009. Design of an Airborne Three-Dimensional Separation Assistance Display, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2
J. Ellerbroek, M. Mulder, M. M. van Paassen, Evaluation of a Separation Assistance Display in a Multi-Actor Experiment, Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology Journal paper Design of an Airborne Three-Dimensional Separation Assistance Display, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, part A, September 2011. 3 Presentations 2008 2011 Designing for Situation Awareness the Ecological Flight Deck, invited speaker at the GDR HAMASYT 3rd Workshop on Affordances, Direct Perception, Dynamic Control and Applications, Delft, The Netherlands, June 11, 2008. Designing for Situation Awareness the Ecological Flight Deck, invited presentation at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, December 2, 2008. poster presentation at the International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton OH, USA, April 29, 2009. demonstration/presentation for NASA Langley visitors, Delft, The Netherlands, June 2009. conference presentation at the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Chicago IL, USA, August 10, 2009. demonstration/presentation for Honeywell visitors, Delft, The Netherlands, November 2009. workshop presentation at the 8th Innovative Research Workshop & Exhibition, Brétigny sur Orge, France, December 2, 2009. Design of an Airborne Three-Dimensional Separation Assistance Display, conference presentation at IEEE SMC, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2010 Evaluation of a Separation Assistance Display in a Multi-Actor Experiment, conference presentation at ISAP, Dayton OH, USA, May 4, 2011 Designing for Situation Awareness the Ecological Flight Deck, scientific seminar at EUROCONTROL Brussels, January 21, 2011 3
4 Other work 2008 2011 Development of a working software implementation of the current 4D-SAI concept. The resulting piece of C++-based software is a simulation using the TU Delft DUECA simulation environment. It can demonstrate a working version of the concept display, using a manually controlled non-linear B747-200 model for ownship motion, and automated traffic generation for (multiple) intruder aircraft. EID / WDA / ASAS literature research Development of a working software implementation of the horizontal and vertical constraint-based separation assistance displays. These displays have been used in the multi-actor experiment, and will be used in the VSAD and co-planar evaluation experiments in October 2011. Development of a Monte-Carlo simulation of pilot problem-solving behaviour in self-separation, based on the results of the multi-actor experiment. This Monte-Carlo simulation is being performed in an effort to increase the statistical power of the multi-actor separation experiment. 5 Work in progress Journal paper Implicit coordination in manual conflict resolution for airborne self-separation, to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Journal paper Design and evaluation of a vertical airborne separation assistance interface, to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Journal paper Design and evaluation of a co-planar airborne separation assistance interface, to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, 6 Comments on Grant Scheme The Grant Scheme which allowed this project to be initiated had a number of benefits. First of all, it allowed us to work on a challenging and fundamental scientific problem that underlies many of the current developments in ATM CD&R. The Grant Scheme was one of the few opportunities that exist in Europe to address real fundamental issues. Unfortunately, many of the other grant schemes force us to move to application very soon, and this often leave the fundamental problems that keep us from developing a really good solution untouched. The EUROCONTROL Grant Scheme was an exception to this, and allowed us to deal with many of the unexplored dimensions of the problem of self-separation from a fundamental research perspective. We are therefore very grateful for EUROCONTROL to have sponsored this project, and have done our best to disseminate its results through presenting at top-level international conferences and publishing it in high-ranking international journals (such as the IEEE Transactions). 4
Unfortunately, the grant scheme has now ended. From the beginning, we expected and hoped for a five-year project that would have allowed us to also address the fundamental issue of what exactly means situation awareness in self-separation. Now that the project is ended after three years, several of its prime deliverables, such as two other journal papers to be submitted to the IEEE SMC journal, have not been finished yet. We are determined, however, to continue on getting these papers published, and will of course continue to acknowledge our main sponsors EUROCONTROL and NLR. With the birth of SESAR, the Grant Scheme has ended and in its place came the WP E program. We are glad that within this program we have found new opportunities to continue our work on ecological approaches to develop human-centered automation. 5