Collaborative decision in shared environments : Airport management application

摘要

The main challenge for the air companies and airport authorities are facing today resides in a good flight schedule management and timing. To improve this management and the efficiency in airport, we help airport people to understand the activity management, by providing a real time three-dimensional view in of the airport. The present contribution presents the VisuAirport project. VisuAirport proposes to several airport professional branches the 3D vision of their working environment, adapted to their needs: the sight of the airport, the landing strips, the areas of circulation and parking, the airport infrastructure, planes evolving on the airport and other vehicles evolving on the airport. The main interested professionals are the ground agents, especially those in charge with the plane operations and the persons in charge with the airports. The tool proposes a 3D vision, which makes possible to any agent an instantaneous synthetic view of the zone of its choice. The airport environment not being fixed, all the vehicles and planes must be localised in real-time, thanks to localization sensors (GPS or others). It is possible to provide synthesized images, rebuilt in real-time, very similar to the real sight. The visual support is an adaptable and multi-functional visual interface, using desktop computers as fixed stations or tablet-PC as mobile working stations.