Tecnologías de Vigilancia, Navegación y Detección/Resolución de Conflictos para los Futuros Sistemas Europeos de Gestión de Tráfico Aéreo CNS/ATM

The presented project is focused in the area of developing new air traffic management systems based in CNS/ATM concept (Communications, Navigation and Surveillance / Air Traffic Management). This concept, intended towards a trajectory-based traffic management, appears in replacement of the traditional more rigid airspace-based control, exclusively employing predefined routes. The real implementation of this operative concept (Iaunched by ICAO in the 90's decade) has become possible due to the maturation of certain basic technologies required for its realization (AOS-B, multilateration systems, navigation systems, GNSS, oo.).

The main goal of this project is the development of new algorithms, operational concepts and technology for the critical components of future CNS/ATM systems, expected to be deployed worldwide along the next 15 years. We will specifically focus our attention in the five following areas:

1. Study of accurate prediction methods for aircraft trajectories, as a basement for automatic intelligent traffic management.

2. Analysis of the system's operative concept and methods for intelligent prediction/resolution of conflicts between aircraft. The objective is optimizing each aircraft cost subject to certain constraints in times of arrival, maximum system capability, etc.

3. Study of senor fusion systems for navigation and algorithms to improve its integrity.

4. System design and data fusion algorithms for the fu tu re functions of surveillance based on AOS-B and multilateration.

5. Proposals of new methods for performance evaluation and automatic monitoring of CNS/ATM systems.