Objective
Outstanding safety level of air transport is partly due to the two pilots standard. However situations where difficult flight conditions, system failures or cockpit crew incapacitation lead to peak workload conditions.The amount of information and actions to process may then exceed the crew capacity. Systems alleviating crew workload would improve safety.
ACROSS Advanced Cockpit for Reduction of StreSs and workload - will develop new applications and HMI in a cockpit concept for all crew duties from gate to gate. Human factors, safety and certification will drive this approach. The new system will balance the crew capacity and the demand on crew resource.
ACROSS workload gains will be assessed by pilots and experts. A Crew Monitoring environment will monitor physiological and behavioural parameters to assess workload and stress levels of pilots. A new indicator will consolidate flight situation and aircraft status into an indicator of the need for crew resource. If this need becomes higher than available crew resource, cockpit applications and systems will adapt to the new situation :
a) Decision support: cockpit interfaces will adapt to focus crew on needed actions,
b) Prioritisation: non-critical applications/information will be muted in favor of critical elements,
c) Progressive automation: crew actions not directly relevant with the situation will be automated,
d) Decision sharing: in case of persistent crisis situation, an automatic information link with the ground will be established to further assist the crew.
In extreme situation where both pilots are incapacitated, further steps will be:
a) Full automation: measures to maintain the aircraft on a safe trajectory, then reroute to nearest airport and autoland.
b) Decision handling: mechanisms allowing ground crew to remotely fly the aircraft.
ACROSS groups a large team of key European stakeholders. They are committed to deliver innovation in the field of air transport safety.
Field of science
- /social sciences/social and economic geography/transport
- /social sciences/sociology/industrial relations/automation
- /engineering and technology/mechanical engineering/vehicle engineering/aerospace engineering/aircraft
Call for proposal
FP7-AAT-2012-RTD-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
33700 Merignac
France
Participants (35)
Participation ended
50013 Campi Bisenzio
31060 Toulouse
75008 Paris
GU14 6YU Farnborough
1059CM Amsterdam
00193 Roma
63263 Neu Isenburg
2465 AH Rijnsaterwoude
31036 Toulouse
51147 Koln
82024 Taufkirchen
31700 Blagnac
1990 392 Lisboa
11527 Athens
28040 Madrid
BS8 4HG Bristol
06980 Ankara
2 Dublin
95523 Cergy Pontoise
82234 Wessling Oberpfaffenhofen
7554 RR Hengelo Ov
38106 Braunschweig
2628 CN Delft
2080 Msida
1902 KK Castricum
93100 Montreuil
Participation ended
88662 Ueberlingen
08005 Barcelona
31700 Blagnac
SE9 3LE London
28042 Madrid
00195 Roma
00 661 Warszawa
BS34 7PA Bristol
21129 Hamburg