HARMONIZING AUTOMATION, PILOT, AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER IN THE FUTURE AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

摘要

Recently, research and development of automatic flight control systems has been promoted to achieve better capacity in air traffic control. One of the topics we should discuss is how to harmonize human beings (pilot and air traffic controller) and automation system working together in the same control loop. This research proposes a new concept for automation design termed "Human As a Control Module architecture (HACM architecture)". In the architecture, human beings who engage in aircraft control are treated as modules of controlling aircraft. By adoptively adjusting control authority between human and the automation system, it avoids adverse effects to aircraft movement caused by interferences of their control inputs. In this paper, we review our past work on the harmonization between human and automation in aircraft control. Two application results are summarized: the first applies it for PIO (Pilot-Induced Oscillation) situations to resolve conflicts between a pilot and an autopilot. The second mimics a situation under the next generation ATM concept. The proposed architecture is applied for harmonizing a new ground automation system, a pilot, and an air traffic controller.