SAFE AUTOMATIC FLIGHT BACK AND LANDING OF AIRCRAFT (SOFIA)

摘要

SOFIA project is a response to the challenge of developing techniques enabling the safe and automatic return of an airplane to ground in the event of hostile actions. Activities in this sense was started in the framework of the SAFEE project, being SOFIA proposed as the continuation of the SAFEE works on Flight Reconfiguration Function (FRF). The FRF system takes the control of the aircraft and manages to safely return it to ground under a security emergency (e.g. hijacking), disabling the control and command of the aircraft from the cockpit. These mean to create and execute a new flight plan towards a secure airport and landing the aircraft at it. The flight plan can be generated in ground or in a military airplane and transmitted to the aircraft, or created autonomously at the own FRF system. SOFIA designs architectures for integrating the FRF system into several typologies of avionics for civil transport aircraft; develops one of this architectures; and finally validates, following the European Operational Concept Validation Methodology (E-OCVM), the FRF concept and the means to integrate it in the current Air Traffic Management (ATM) system.