Towards Smarter Airborne Technologies

C. Ponsard, Towards Smarter Airborne Technologies : a panorama of Belgian Research. AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Committee, Fall 2014 ISTC Newsletter.

Date: 3 janvier 2015

Publication: Communication scientifique ⊕

Expertises:

Ingénierie des systèmes IT complexes ⊕

Domaine: Aérospatial ⊕

A propos du projet: SAT ⊕

Auteur : Christophe Ponsard

Driven by the Walloon "Marshall" plan, key challenges met Belgian aerospace companies within the skywin pole have been investigated by the Smarter Airborne Technologies project. A mixed consortium of companies (Thales Belgium SA, Barco-Silex, Gillam FEI, M2Systems, Dardenne), universities (UCLouvain, UNamur, ULiege) and research centers (CETIC, Multitel) could achieve innovative progress in the following areas :

Operating system hardening on top of electronic components exposed to extreme conditions of radiation and temperatures.
Cost efficient tooled process support for DO-178/254 incremental certification using a product line approach.
Prototyping of a Compact Passive Hydrogen Maser intended for achieving ultra-precise frequency or time management in space and civil aviation.
Blind Human Machine Interface for improving the interaction between the pilot and cockpit control interfaces through a multi-modal approach.
Simulation Radio/Airport to study the congestion of the radio systems at airports, in particular for the air traffic control, through a virtual reality approach.

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