The National Airspace System (NAS) must be improved to increase capacity, reduce flight delays, and minimize environmental impacts of air travel. NASA has been tasked with aiding the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in NAS modernization. Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is an enabling technology that is fundamental to realization of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). Despite the 2020 FAA mandate requiring ADS-B Out equipage, airspace users are lacking incentives to equip with the requisite ADS-B avionics. A need exists to validate in flight tests advanced concepts of operation (ConOps) that rely on ADS-B and other data links without requiring costly equipage. A potential solution is presented in this paper. It is possible to emulate future data link capabilities using the existing in-flight Internet and reduced-cost test equipment. To establish proof-of-concept, a high-fidelity traffic operations simulation was modified to include a module that simulated Internet transmission of ADS-B messages. An advanced NASA ConOp, Flight Deck Interval Management (FIM), was used to evaluate technical feasibility. A preliminary assessment of the effects of latency and dropout rate on FIM was performed. Flight hardware that would be used by proposed test environment was connected to the simulation so that data transfer from aircraft systems to test equipment could be verified. The results indicate that the FIM ConOp, and therefore, many other advanced ConOps with equal or lesser response characteristics and data requirements, can be evaluated in flight using the proposed concept.


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    Titel :

    Proof-of-Concept of a Networked Validation Environment for Distributed Air/Ground NextGen Concepts


    Beteiligte:
    Grisham, James (Autor:in) / Larson, Natalie (Autor:in) / Nelson, Justin (Autor:in) / Reed, Joshua (Autor:in) / Suggs, Marvin (Autor:in) / Underwood, Matthew (Autor:in) / Papelis, Yiannis (Autor:in) / Ballin, Mark G. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference ; 2013 ; Los Angeles, CA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2013-08-12


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Proof-of-Concept of a Networked Validation Environment for Distributed Air/Ground NextGen Concepts

    Grisham, J. / Larson, N. / Nelson, J. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2013


    Feasibility of a Networked Air Traffic Infrastructure Validation Environment for Advanced NextGen Concepts

    McCormack, Michael J. / Gibson, Alec K. / Dennis, Noah E. et al. | NTRS | 2013


    Distributed Environment Experiment for NextGen

    Doucett, S. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2013


    NextGen: From the Ground Up

    Brennan, Mike | Online Contents | 2010