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Programme Description
The SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking is an institutionalised European partnership between private and public sector partners set up to accelerate through research and innovation the delivery of the Digital European Sky.
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Summary
WA2 (ATM application‐oriented research) comprises the exploratory research activities aiming to bridge the results of ATM excellent science and outreach and the higher maturity ATM research performed with a wider research community, as part of SESAR 3 JU industrial research activities. It also aims at providing the necessary scientific support to ATM change. WA2 covers content that has already completed TRL1 in previous research activities and the objective is to complete TRL2.
The challenge is to design and develop concrete innovative applications (that are already TRL1, achieved within SESAR programme or outside) that aim at increasing the level of air-ground integration, supported by high automation levels and that will enable the transition to trajectory based operations (TBO). The proposed solutions will aim at realising the Digital European Sky vision that foresees the full integration of an increasing number of new forms of mobility and air vehicles, which have a high degree of autonomy and use digital means of communication and navigation. The proposed solutions shall support the evolution towards the future ATM system, exploiting existing technologies as much as possible, and developing new ones in order to increase global ATM performance in terms of capacity, operational efficiency and accommodation of new and/or more autonomous air vehicles, i.e. supporting the evolving demand in terms of diversity, complexity from very low-level airspace to high-level operations. The challenge is to ensure the full integration of certified drones into all classes of airspace, full U-space services and single pilot operations thanks to increased automation and delegation of separation responsibility to systems.
Detailed Call Description
The SESAR 3 JU has identified the following innovative research elements that could be used to achieve the expected outcomes.
- Frequency switching management. This research will investigate, from a gate-to-gate perspective, the automation of air–ground coordination to ensure the use of automatic voice and datalink frequency selection for communications by the pilot and ATC. The scope of automatic frequency selection covers an assessment of multilink schemes, such as policy-based routing (including criteria for selection of terrestrial or satellite bearer and best frequency based on prevailing airspace and service requirements).
- Advanced air–ground integration for general aviation. This activity will ensure that access to all airspace classes remains open to general aviation in an equitable manner and at an affordable cost as well as the leverage on-board technologies (potentially not certified) in order to guarantee better and safer flights for all general aviation users, including sports aviation.
- Clear air turbulence data presentation to ATC. Research can propose potential solutions for sharing turbulence reports to controllers addressing how the information will be presented to ATCOs and how they would use it. Proposals should focus on improvement of the clear air turbulence prediction processes (R&I need: enabling greater ground and airborne integration and wider performance).
- Evolution of controller/pilot communication. The objective of this element is to further develop the operational concept and make a holistic analysis of the potential for the concept to be supported by alternative datalink technologies, e.g., Satcom, commercial links, satellite-based VHF, etc. (R&I need: enabling greater ground and airborne integration and wider performance).
- Air and ground synchronisation applications. The scope of this research includes the identification of innovative applications / AI-based solutions that could improve such synchronisation. Research aims at performing a risk assessment on loss of air-ground communications and determining continuity, integrity and performance requirements on air-ground communications for the proposed applications (R&I need: enabling greater ground and airborne integration and wider performance).
- Controller support systems for improved radio communication and inclusion of automation. Research aims at developing a proof of concept for an enhanced system to assist radio management.
- Integration of super-high-altitude operating aerial vehicle. These vehicles, which can be viewed as drones, will also need to be integrated, with entry and exit procedures through segregated or non- segregated airspace. The research could also benefit from research on the physics of the atmosphere for such HLO, based on the existing state of the art.
- Single pilot operations (SPO). Research aims at addressing: Safety systems and crew health and HP monitoring systems for supporting SPO. / Incapacitation detection in SPO. / This research addresses also the expected role of FOC/WOC in the case of SPO abnormal situations.
- Machine-to-machine communication. This covers for example a machine-to-machine negotiation-based conflict resolution.
- FMS-twin for enhanced A/G connectivity. The research would explore the challenges of the FMS-twin concept, define a first set of candidate applications and perform an initial evaluation of potential benefits.
- Advanced aircraft on-board systems. Research aims at developing potential ATM applications such as: tools for monitoring flight crew workload, support to 4D navigation (applied to all types of flight from low altitude to sub-orbital), increased situational awareness, self-separation of traffic, traffic prediction, collision alerting and avoidance, all weather approach and landing, and automatic flight control .
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The maximum expected EU contribution per project for each of the topics under Work Area 1 is €1 000 000.
The maximum expected EU contribution per project for each of the topics under Work Area 2 is €2 000 000.
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Transport
Eligibility for Participation
- Other Beneficiaries
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional dissemination obligations:
- Beneficiaries must make proactive efforts to share, on a royalty-free basis, in a timely manner and as appropriate, all relevant results with the other grants awarded under the same call;
- Beneficiaries must acknowledge these obligations and incorporate them into the proposal, outlining the efforts they will make to meet them, and into Annex I to the grant agreement.
Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional exploitation obligations:
- beneficiaries must make available for reuse under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions all relevant results generated, through a well-defined mechanism using a trusted repository;
- if the purpose of the specific identified measures to exploit the results of the action is related to standardisation, beneficiaries must grant a non-exclusive licence to the results royalty-free;
- if working on linked actions, beneficiaries must ensure mutual access to the background to and to the results of ongoing and closed linked actions, should this be necessary to implement tasks under the linked actions or to exploit results generated by the linked actions as defined in the conditions laid down in this biannual work programme and in the call for proposals.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
SESAR 3 JU
Email: info-call@sesarju.eu