![]() The use of the simulator software is free of charge for the researchers who can share their improvements and developments with the user community, some of which can then be integrated in the original ESCAPE. In order to provide maximum freedom to researchers, EUROCONTROL distributes the executable code of the simulator with a licence inspired by the open-source approach. ![]() This means that universities can start working with it immediately. EUROCONTROL distributes the simulator with a set of generic exercises and a human-machine interface representative of the most common systems in Europe. “We are hoping that ESCAPE-light will help us validate Air Traffic Management (ATM)-related concepts in a real-time scenario for improved results”.Īlthough called “light” the simulator offers the same functionalities as the original ESCAPE simulator. ![]() Their colleagues Ahmad Sufian, Srinivas Athota and Pushparaj Kiranraj are currently using fast-time simulation software in their research. They also see the platform as a great way to introduce the fundamentals of ATC to new research staff. They want to create conflict detection and resolution tools for controllers, which would be validated using ESCAPE-Light. In the similar fashion, researches from Nanyang Technological University’s Air Traffic Management Research Institute (NTU AMRI) of Singapore, Narendra Pratap Singh and Phu Tran are developing Artificial Intelligence using machine-learning techniques. Tomoaki Tatsukawa from Tokyo University of Science said is developing algorithms for air traffic management and hopes the simulator will allow him to evaluate their effectiveness. This will help us with our research and validation projects”. “We need a platform that will allow us to implement new functionalities and plug-ins as opposed to a closed system that we are currently using that cannot be customised. Ángel Martínez from CRIDA, a research centre based in Madrid, emphasised the importance of the platform’s flexibility. Paul Frost from Technical University in Braunschweig is happy to be able to offer the simulation platform to PhD students for their theses research and use it for testing of new human-machine interfaces developed at his university.ĭr Yan Xu from Cranfield University explains that they are planning to upgrade their current ATM simulation platform with ESCAPE-light and try to integrate it with their robust flight simulator used for research and teaching. In addition, Petr Lukeš explains that his university is looking into creating a new programme with a focus on ATC and this platform would facilitate that process, as well as research activities around safety and human factor testing. It truly is a win-win situation,” explained Eri Itoh from Tokyo’s Electronic Navigation Research Institute.Ĭhristopher Thorley from Coventry University and Petr Lukeš from Czech Technical University in Prague, see the platform as a great teaching aid. We are thrilled that EUROCONTROL is making a version of their simulator available to researchers at no cost, creating a community that will be able to share problems, solutions and data while feeding the results of research back to EUROCONTROL. ![]() “We have been looking for a good simulator for the last six years but as a research institute we were not able to afford expensive software. We hope that our new partners will bring Artificial Intelligence- and Machine Learning-based ATC or safety tools, relevant metrics, efficient data analytics and convincing validation techniques and we’ll help disseminating them.Ĭreating an International Community of ATM Researchers We expect that ESCAPE-Light will act as a federating tool to encourage aviation schools to cooperate on research and to make contributions to improvement of the simulator and the validation methodology.
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