Technologies Enabling the Cockpit of the Future

Technologies Enabling the Cockpit of the Future

User-friendly UI and Seamless Connectivity Driving Next-Gen Cockpit

Swapnadeep Nayak

Industry Analyst

Technical Insights - ICT

25-09-2014

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- Analyzing and tracking recent technology developments in ICT across the globe

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specific emphasis on projects on technology/ R&D management, funding analysis and roadmapping

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Career Highlights

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� Market research and product promotion experience with Philips Electronics India Ltd. as part of internship

� Software and website development experience through freelance and academic projects

Education

� Master of Business Administration specialised in Marketing and System from West Bengal University of

Technology (Kolkata, India)

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Focus Points

Agenda

• Understanding the need for Future Cockpit System

• Implementation Challenges for Future Cockpit System

• Activities of various stakeholders to transform the cockpit system

• Key R&D focus areas for the stakeholders

• Major technologies identified to shape Future Cockpit System

• Overview of the enabling technologies identified

• Enabling technologies application roadmap

• Conclusion

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Introduction–A Brief Snapshot

� In an increasingly complex environment, avionics system manufacturers are trying to design the cockpit in such a waythat it would improve the operational efficiency as well as flight safety. They are trying to engineer the cockpit to bemore user-friendly and present all the necessary information to pilots in the most productive way so that they can carryout their duties efficiently.

TopicOverview

TopicOverview

TopicOverview

New types of user interaction systems and new displays are being implemented, which wouldreplace the analogue dials and would make the cockpit more spacious.

Faster communication methods, information handling and analysis techniques are paving theway for the most advanced cockpit systems of the future.

Need for Future CockpitsNeed for Future CockpitsNeed for Future Cockpits

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Challenges in the Way to Realizing the Benefits from Future Cockpits

Key Challenges

Massive

Data

Volumes

Massive

Data

Volumes

Massive

Data

Volumes

Lack of

Security

Lack of

Security

Lack of

Security

IntegrationIntegrationIntegration

Integration: There are certain standards that are required to be met before integration of future cockpit

systems.

Lack of Security: Using generic Internet protocols to connect the ground network with third party cockpit

systems could compromise on the reliability and security of sensitive flight information.

Massive Data Volume: Managing massive influx of data sets with the present Aircraft Communications

Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) would be difficult and time consuming.

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Key Stakeholder Activities–Technology Developers

Here we have mentioned some of the activities of organizations around the globe.

High Medium Low

Key Industry Innovations and Initiatives Impact Rating

Thales Thales’ vision of the future cockpit system could feature a single touchscreen, a permanentcolor heads-up display (HUD), and voice or gesture recognition.

It could also help in monitoring pilot and the crew status by leveraging physiologicalsensors.

High

Key Industry Innovations and Initiatives

Impact Rating

Rockwell Collins

Rockwell Collins is offering Pro Line Fusion flight deck which features four separate highresolution displays placed in a T-shaped design. The Pro Line Fusion flight deck isequipped with a heads-up guidance system, enhanced vision system, and synthetic visionsystem.

High

Key Industry Innovations and Initiatives

Impact Rating

AstronicsCorporation

The cockpit systems of present aircraft still lacks functionalities for efficient connectivity.Pilots have limited communication with the ground systems through satellitecommunication. Astronics provides a dedicated solution called FliteStream VVIP forseamless connectivity to high priority customers during flights. This could prove to be apromising solution for future cockpit system design.

Medium

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Key R&D Focus Areas

NASA is conducting the Synthetic Vision Systems research project. Rockwell-Collinsand BAE Systems have conducted significant research on the military andcommercial applications of synthetic vision, enhanced vision, and blended visiontechnology.

Advanced Vision Systems

Research projects such as ODICIS, have successfully demonstrated the useof touchscreens in cockpit systems.

Adacel Technologies supplies its Voice Activated Cockpit system to LockheedMartin Corporation.

User Interaction

SANDRA is a EU-funded project which is focusing on new concepts for communicationavionics and innovative airport data links. The project’s objective is to design a coherentarchitecture that can be easily reconfigured and adapted for the flexible implementationof new communication services.

Communication

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Key R&D Focus Areas (Continued)

Industry standard regulators International Telecommunication Union (ITU) working onfuture flight data recorder systems. The standardizing body is planning to implementcloud computing with analytics functionality for continuous transmission of data from theblack box and the cockpit to the data centers.

Data Management

There were few initiatives like collaborative work from PASSUR Aerospace (businessintelligence solution provider for aerospace) and ARINC (transport communicationservice provider) to develop predictive analytics and decision support tools.

Recently, with the advent of the big data age, many emerging big data analyticssolution providers are also focusing on the development of analytics solutions for theaerospace industry.

Advanced Analytics

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Technology Enablers

The five technologies that have been selected for further analysis are either based on the key R&Dfocus areas in the cockpit system development space that we have discussed in previous slides orbecause it could be an advancement of the current technologies which are already used for basicoperations in the system.

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Advanced Vision System & Next-Gen User Interface

Present adoption rateacross industries

Advanced Vision System : It presents the visual environment external to theaircraft through a computer-generated image of the external scene topography.SVS requires precise location information, onboard databases and a displaymedia.

SVS is critical to reduce accidents as they improve a pilot’s situation and spatialawareness during low-visibility conditions.

SVS-EVS fusion with the help of sensor fusion algorithm will be inevitable in thefuture to realize the benefits of both systems.

Next-Gen User Interface : New generation interface innovations such astouchscreens, voice recognition can be efficiently used in the future cockpit.

This technology is not ready at the moment for commercial aviation in the nearterm due to concerns over inadvertent touch or complications.

Touchscreen displays will have several advantages over the traditional displaysused in cockpits. The key benefit would be the elimination of physical spaceconstraints for instrument displays as pilots will be able to search informationfrom the same set of screens.


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Advanced Communication; Scalable Data Storage and Analytics

Advanced Communication : The analogue communication technique used inexisting systems is not adequate enough to carry out seamless connectivitybetween the flight and ground management systems. Thus there is a need foradvanced IP-based communication architecture like IPv6 which could processdigital signals in real-time for effective seamless connection.

Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) : The highly scalable, centralized approach ofXaaS enables deployment of computing infrastructure and storage resourcesthrough web and thereby reducing cost and delivering an efficient system for theenterprises.

XaaS solution could bring in several innovative solutions for the marketleveraging the benefits of its convergence capability with other technologies likeBig data.

Big Data Analytics : Big Data Analytics refers to a set of data managementtools, appliances and techniques for effective analysis of the large data setstowards deriving intelligence on business operations, performance of equipmentand machines.

Convergence with technologies like cloud computing and advanced analyticalfunctionalities facilitates delivery of advanced data processing capabilities andreal-time data delivery. It could prove to be a good alternative for the traditionalbusiness intelligence solutions used in the aerospace industry for basic

information delivery and analysis.




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Enabling Technology Application Roadmap

Short Term

(2014-2016)

Long Term

(>2020)

Medium Term

(2017-2020)

Brain-controlled

User Interaction

system

Voice controlled cockpit application

Unmanned Cockpit Control

Application

Big Data Analytics Enabled Weather

Forecasting

Crew Health Status Monitoring

application

Advanced Cognitive

Analytics for Flight Operation

Gesture controlled cockpit application

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