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Projects at the Institute of Flight Guidance

	5G-Reallabor (in the mobility region BS-WOB) In this project an open real lab is being set up which serves the rapid implementation of 5G use cases on a concentrated area in order to gain experience about the 5G technology, but also the interaction with other technologies across domain boundaries.
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	AACID (Acoustics and aerodynamics for city drones) The project AACID is focused on estimating the noise and aerodynamics of multicopters for urban areas. The aim of AACID is to estimate the noise and hazard potential that can arise from disruptive winds during the air transport of people and goods with multicopters in urban environments.
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	AIRPASS (Advanced Integrated RPAS Avionics Safety Suite) The SESAR joint undertaking has issued the U-Space blueprint which has triggered a range of projects intended to develop a comprehensive concept for the integration of drones in Europe. One of these projects is AIRPASS, which focusses on on-board technologies for drones.
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	AURA (SESAR PJ34-W3 ATM U-SPACE INTERFACE) The objective of the SESAR Industrial Research project PJ34 AURA is to lay the foundations for the integration of the new entrants in current and future air traffic environment, developing the required concept of operations and validating U-space services information exchanges with Air Traffic Management systems.
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	AW-Drones (Airworthiness of Drones) The AW-Drones project facilitates the ongoing European Union rulemaking process for the definition of rules, technical standards and procedures for civilian drones to enable safe, environmentally sound and reliable operations in the EU.
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	Big Data Platform In the "Big Data Platform" project, DLR is developing methods for the future field of Big-Data-Science. An important goal of the project is to develop methods for analyzing large data sets.
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	City-ATM (Demonstration of Traffic Management in Urban Airspace) The City-ATM project will develop a concept for future air traffic management (ATM) in urban airspace, which will enable safe and efficient integration of new airspace users.
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	CORUS-XUAM CORUS-XUAM is an EU project dedicated to implement Urban Air Mobility solutions within U-space by developing the necessary operational procedures and requirements considering safety, efficiency and social acceptability. A core element of the project are six demonstrations in different European countries.
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	DIAL (Individual and Automated Air Transport) The project "Individual and Automated Air Transport" (Der individuelle und automatisierte Luftverkehr; DIAL), initiated by the DLR, bundles research to expand the automation of flight guidance. This will enable flight planners to offer customized climate-optimized routes for every aircraft in the sky.
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	Digital Technologies for Tower (SESAR 2020 PJ05-W2 DTT) SESAR Project DTT focusses firstly on the development of a remote-aerodrome air traffic service and secondly on the validation of innovative human-machine interface modes and related technologies in different airport towers.
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	DRIVER+ (Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience) There are many types of disasters, both man-made and natural, that crisis management professionals have to deal with today. DRIVER+ is a unique multi-national project, working across many sectors, looking to find ways to implement a new approach to improving crisis management in Europe.
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	Eco2Fly (Ecological and Economical Flying) Various DLR institutes are working together in Eco2Fly to evaluate both tactical and strategic measures for reducing the climate impact of air traffic, thereby utilising new findings on climatic effects.
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	FALCO (SESAR 2020 PJ33-W3) The SESAR project FALCO is investigating solutions for making air traffic management and controller deployment more flexible, efficient and responsive to changing traffic demand and conditions. The project will also trial spectrum-efficient data link connectivity and digital voice communications.
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	GLASS (GLS approaches based on SBAS) The GLASS project aims to achieve an SBAS-based extension of GLS approaches.The objective is a cost-effective system to enable satellite-based approaches with vertical guidance and automated landings in freely definable locations.
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	GreAT (Greener Air Traffic Operations) The project focuses on innovative guidance concepts for air traffic as well as optimised taxiing and flight operations for a climate-friendly air transport. Continuous data exchange between aircraft and ground control centres is one of the main pillars of its research approach.
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	GUIDE (GBAS Guided Departures) The GUIDE project researches the extension of the Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) from a landing system to a navigation System while also supporting guided precision departures.
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	HAAWAII (Highly Automated Air Traffic Controller Workstations with Artificial Intelligence Integration) The HAAWAII project is working on a "listening" assistance system to better support air traffic controllers. In order to use this system with speech recognition at many airports at low cost, AI and especially machine learning is used.
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	HorizonUAM Efficiency, safety, feasibility, sustainability and affordability are the key characteristics of future urban mobility. The HorizonUAM project provides first answers to this vision by pooling existing competencies of individual institutes within DLR.
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	INVIRCAT (Investigate IFR RPAS control in airports and TMA) The INVIRCAT project aims to provide a means for a safe and efficient integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems into the existing air traffic control procedures and infrastructures within terminal manoeuvring areas under instrument flight rules.
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	ITC (Inter-Team Collaboration) The Inter-Team Collaboration (ITC) project focus DLR's own expertise on teamwork and involve stakeholders to develop solutions for team collaboration in an efficient ATM system.
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	IN-PREP Both natural and manmade crises are changing in scale, frequency and ferocity, many do not stop at country borders. Through IN-PREP, tools will be developed to respond to these urgent challenges and support those with the onerous responsibility of managing these life-threatening crisis situations.
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	KIEZ4-0 (Artificial Intelligence European Certification under Industry 4.0) The national joint-research project KIEZ is aimed at creating a demonstrator that illustrates how artificial intelligence in aviation can be certified internationally in the future.
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	Labyrinth The aim of Labyrinth is to optimise drone traffic to enhance its circulation in highly densified areas and encourage its use, given the high potential of these unmanned aerial vehicles for the optimisation of management and supervision processes.
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	MaRPAS 3 (Maritime RPAS Operation 3) In the MaRPAS 3 project, German maritime police and DLR are jointly researching the use of unmanned air vehicles at sea in order to capture highly automated situational images and identify safety-critical situations.
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	Master360 The Master360 project is dedicated to the safe integration of UAVs into the airspace. To this end, it is developing approaches that allow airspace to be used efficiently even with high traffic densities. Master360 also examines their implementation with technology demonstrators.
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	MasterUAS The objective of MasterUAS (multi-sensor system with “Detect and Avoid” for the secure integration of UAS into the air traffic) is the development of a function demonstrator for the secure integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
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	NICo (Next Generation Intelligent Cockpit) In the NICo (Next Generation Intelligent Cockpit) project, the concept and architecture for a highly automated cockpit of the future is being developed and investigated within the scope of a number of simulator studies in the cockpit simulator GECO and AVES.
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	PASSport The purpose of the PASSport project is to engineer and qualify a solution which extends the situational awareness in port areas in order to improve safety and security. Aerial fixed/rotary wing and underwater drones form the basis for this.
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	PROSA Wave 2 (SESAR 2020 PJ10-W2) The achievement of a uniform European airspace and the provision of even safer and simultaneously more affordable services for a constantly increasing number of airspace users is only possible through focused technical developments. The SESAR project PROSA W2 addresses this.
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	REACTOR (REducing WorkloAd through EffiCient TechnOlogies and ProceduRes) The workload in the cockpit is one of the most important safety factors in aviation. In an environment of increasing complexity, the REACTOR project aims to support the cockpit crew and reduce the workload through the development of modern technologies and procedures.
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	Remote AFIS DLR, RWTH Aachen, and HS Osnabrück investigated if a very cost-reduced remote tower sensor system, consisting of two basic 180 degree panoramic cameras and a Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera, could satisfy certain use cases of very small airports.
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	ResponDrone ResponDrone is an international, which is dedicated to developing and applying a fleet of drones operated by a single pilot in emergency situations, providing critical information and communication services to first responders.
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	SAFELAND The SAFELAND project’s objective is to assist the flight and landing of a single-piloted aircraft in the case of partial or total incapacitation of the pilot. Hereby, SAFELAND will mainly focus on developing a sensible ground support concept, and in particular on the role ATM could have.
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	SANTANA-AERO (Smart Antenna Terminal for Aeronautical Applications) The objective of the joint project SANTANA-AERO is the application-specific development of satellite communications antenna technologies for aeronautical applications. The core elements here are efficient antenna arrays using multilayer technology and the implementation of electronic beamforming.
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	SALVARE (Safe Landing and Takeoff in low Visibility for advanced Rescue Operations) The DLR project SALVARE focuses on rescue helicopter missions in both poor visibility through fog and at night to extend their operational range. Various assistance systems are to support the pilot in this.
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	SATIE (Security of Air Transport Infrastructures of Europe) SATIE targets to combat the persistent issue of airports’ cyber-security. The project adopts a holistic approach about threat prevention, detection, response and mitigation in airports, while guaranteeing the protection of critical systems, sensitive data and passengers.
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	SINOPTICA (Satellite-borne and In-situ Observations to Predict the Initiation of Convection for ATM) The SINOPTICA project aims to exploit the untapped potential of assimilating remote sensing, as well as GNSS-derived datasets and in-situ weather-station data for the benefit of air traffic management operations.
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	Sonification in air traffic control At the Institute for Flight Guidance, the foundations of a new research field are being laid as part of a doctorate: representing the most varied forms of data using different musical parameters such as pitch or volume to increase situation awareness during monitoring tasks.
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	SpaceTracks By establishing a Launch Coordination Center (LCC), DLR wants to develop tools for a " launch-on-demand " of spacecraft and contribute to their safe and efficient integration into the airspace.
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	STARFiSH (Safety and Artificial Intelligence Speech Recognition) Applications based on AI can be of great benefit in the field of air traffic control, provided such applications can fulfil the stringent safety requirements of the aviation industry. For this purpose, STARFiSH will integrate AI-based speech recognition ABSR into an A-SMGCS monitoring system for ground traffic at Fraport AG.
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	START (Stable and resilient ATM by integrating Robust airline operations into the network) The EU-funded project aims to design, apply and verify optimised algorithms that will enable a robust ATM system not only for conventional air traffic but resilient in disrupted circumstances as well.
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	Total Airport Management (SESAR 2020 PJ04-W2 TAM) Within the project PJ04 Total Airport Management, solutions are being developed for the efficient utilisation of available resources and capacities at airports of widely differing sizes. It addresses the integration of airport processes into the ATM network and the processes at the airport.
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	TriControl The TriControl multimodal controller working position demonstrates a novel concept for natural human-machine interaction in Air Traffic Control (ATC) by integrating speech recognition, eye tracking and multi-touch sensing.
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	URClearED (A Unified Integrated Remain Well Clear Concept in Airspace D-G Class) The SESAR project URClearED is concerned with a formally precise definition of a "Well Clear" concept in airspaces D to G, particularly involving drones.
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	USEPE (U-space Separation in Europe) USEPE will develop a concept to ensure safe separation of unmanned aerial vehicles (from other drones and from manned aircraft) in a crowded urban airspace. It will also look at the impact of turbulent wind shear between buildings and new machine learning methods to automate the separation management.
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	USpace4UAM (USpace for Urban Air Mobility) USpace4UAM is a two-year demonstration project, in which air-taxi and drone system manufacturers, air traffic control providers, service providers and research institutions aim to demonstrate the current state of research and development of unmanned aerial vehicles and air-taxis in various operational missions.
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Recently finished projects

	ALAADy (Automated Low Altitude Air DeliverY) The ALAADy project is about the automated low altitude air delivery using automated unmanned aircraft. At the projects centre there is a new kind of transport drone which causes minimum damage to its surroundings when forced to make an emergency landing.
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	ALPS (Alternative Positioning System) The "Alternative Positioning System" (ALPS) project involves the design and development of an "Alternative Positioning Navigation and Timing" (APNT) system to enable air traffic to continue with as little disruption as possible in the case of a failure in the satellite navigation system.
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	AVATAR (Efficient High-Performance Avionics Platforms for Fixed Wing and Rotary Wing Aircraft) The LuFo V project "AVATAR" is concerned with evaluating future display technologies and display formats for fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft.
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	CORUS (Concept of Operation for EuRopean UTM Systems) In CORUS, experts develop a comprehensive concept which addresses how unmanned aviation systems should be operated and guided in the lowest European airspace (U-Space) in the future.
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	DEPA 2050 (DEvelopment Pathways for Aviation up to 2050) In DEPA2050, eight aviation institutes of DLR are developing scenarios for aviation up to 2050, compiling technology roadmaps for components vehicles and analysing their long-term influences on the air traffic system.
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	Future Sky Safety P1: Coordination of Institutionally Funded Safety Research The safety research conducted by the European Aeronautical Research Establishments is not as coordinated among the Establishments as it could be. Future Sky Safety with its project P1 on the Coordination of Institutionally Funded Safety Research seeks to change that.
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	Future Sky Safety P6: Human Performance Envelope The project aims at defining and applying the Human Performance Envelope for cockpit operations and at identifying methods to measure the crew’s performance to support the crew through improved Human Machine Interface design and operational procedures.
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	KonTeKst (Konfigurationen und Technologien für das emissions- und lärmarme Kurzstreckenflugzeug) The KonTeKst project develops and analyses configurations and technologies for low-emissions and low-noise shorthaul aircraft. The technologies include configurative noise shielding concepts and processes for the reduction of source noise at the engine and on the aircraft.
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	MaRPAS 2 (Maritime RPAS Operation 2) In the MaRPAS 2 project, Bundespolizei See and DLR are jointly researching the use of unmanned air vehicles at sea in order to capture highly automated situational images and identify safety-critical situations. The solutions developed in the predecessor project MaRPAS will be tested in MaRPAS 2 under real conditions.
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	MET4ATM (Meteorology for Air Traffic Management) Despite most modern air traffic management and flight control technologies, weather phenomena repeatedly impede operation of air transport. The MET4ATM project intends to develop methods for planning and implementing the approaching traffic of an airport in reliance to disruptive weather phenomena.
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	PROSA (SESAR 2020 PJ10) Reaching the Single European Sky goals for the European Airspace and providing even safer service for an increasing amount of traffic and with lower costs, as required by the airspace users is only possible with focused technical development on European level. This is addressed by the SESAR project PROSA.
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	Remote Tower for Multiple Airports (SESAR 2020 PJ05) SESAR Project PJ05 focusses on the safe and efficient airport of the future. By bringing the concept of remotely controlling multiple airports to a higher maturity level, it aims at providing small and medium-sized airports with more cost-efficient and service-tailored air traffic services.
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	WW-ATM (World Wide Air Traffic Management) How does the use of noise-optimized approach procedures affect the overall air traffic? How to respond most effectively to heavy snowfall at an airport? And how to treat the collapse of the navigation infrastructure with minimal retroactive effects? WW-ATM provides a validation platform to answer these and further questions.
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