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Títol: On the design of real-time ATM simulations in the USA NAS airspace

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: PÉREZ BATLLE, MARCOS

Departament: FIS

Títol: On the design of real-time ATM simulations in the USA NAS airspace

Data inici oferta: 17-01-2015     Data finalització oferta: 17-09-2015


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    Tipus: Individual
     
    Lloc de realització: EETAC
     
    Segon director/a (UPC): PASTOR LLORENS, ENRIC
     
    Paraules clau:
    Atm, Atc, Controller, Simulation, Nas
     
    Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
    Air Traffic Management (ATM) simulations are necessary activities
    to assess current or new concepts applied to aviation. In
    particular, real-time human-in-the-loop simulations enable to
    check performance, in terms of capacity, efficiency and safety of
    the proposed scenario from the air traffic controller (ATCo)
    perspective.

    Recently, the american Federal Aviation Authority FAA) has
    published the necessary data to perform a faithful ATM simulation
    scenario over its own airspace.

    The aim of this final bachelor degree project is to design an ATM
    simulation use case over the USA National Airspace (NAS) and
    perform it by exploiting all the published data.

    Activity plan:
    - Feasibility study
    - Data requirements for a proper ATM simulation
    - Available FAA NAS databases
    - Scenario design
    - Simulation exercises
     
    Overview (resum en anglès):
    This document contains the steps followed to obtain data from the American airspace and the process to obtain the files that will allow us to perform simulations with eDEP using data from American airspace. First, we have done a search and we have found information from two reliable sources, the FACET and the National Flight Data Center. In both, we could get the same information, but in the second it was necessary to be registered to have access and the registration process was very long and complex. So, we used data by FACET using a small Java program that allows us to extract it. Once extracted we have created a program that transform the information of airports, sectorization, airways, waypoints and flight plans in a desired format.
    Then, we have obtained some data which we have seen a number of problems such as wrong waypoint time, wrong speeds and altitudes and flight plans very short. We have tried to implement a kind of solution to all these problems, and finally we have been able to get the files which allows running the simulation on eDEP.
    Finally, we performed a simulation test with a sectorization that occupy the entire central part of the United States in order to observe the behavior of the maximum number of aircraft. On this simulation, we have seen an important part of the aircrafts moving properly and some others having common mistakes.
    As final result of this project we have obtained a simulation that a series of modifications are needed on the files of execution in order to achieve the proposed objective.

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