Ongoing research on reduced-crew operations
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Crew Reduction in transportation (and not only)
ACROSS project on crew reduction
Main open issues and research needs
Ongoing research in the world (focus on single
pilot)
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Crew Reduction in transportation
 Automation increase with crew
reduction in all the domains of
transportation
» Consolidated solution in confined
envrionment
 Not only crew reduction but
different roles for human
» Supervision and remote
control
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Crew Reduction in aviation
First Pilot
Navigator
Co Pilot
Radio
operator
I - Flight
engineer
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Flight
Assistant
Adv. Cockpit for Reduction Of Stress & Workload
 Large IP coordinated by Thales of the 7th FP
 35 partners from 12 different countries including
major aircraft manufacturers (Airbus, Boeing,
Dassault, Embraer, etc.)
 Objectives:
» Facilitating the management of the peak workload situations
that can occur during a flight
» New cockpit solutions for reduced crew operations
» Identifying open issues for possible future single pilot
operations
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Peak Workload
» Improved situational awareness
» Increased automation
» Improved human machine interaction
» Improved support for abnormal conditions
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Reduced crew
» Support to the remaining pilot
» Support to complete the flight to the nearest suitable airport
» Remote cruise and landing
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Single pilot
» Aspects that currently prevent the reduction of the crew to a
single pilot (considering the technologies developed in the
project)
» Single pilot operations not in the scope of ACROSS
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Main areas of work of ACROSS
 Communication
 Mission management
 Crew monitoring
 Crew incapacitation management
 Open non investigated areas:
» Safety (lack of redundancy, difficult cooperative work, etc.)
» Legal and managerial (switch of control under grey cond.)
» Certification (especially complex scenarios)
» Acceptability (several stakeholders)
» Security
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Projects on single pilot
 NASA experiment on remote collaboration (since
2010)
 Rockwell Collins (with California State University,
Long Beach) 5 year project funded by NASA with
extensive simulation (2014)
 Coventry University (Don Harris) for the redesign and
simplification of piloting functions (2013)
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Single pilot solutions
Area to be
explored
Conclusions
 Hot and pressing topic that will expand in the
future
 Not (or at least not only) technlogical problem
requiring multidisciplinary solutions
 Little perception by EU (not topics in Clean Sky,
SESAR, H2020)
Deep Blue responsible for the outcome of ACROSS
on the subject, any feedback, comment, collaboration
really welcome:
[email protected]
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