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Projects of the Institute of Flight Guidance

	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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	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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	AW-Drones (Airworthiness) 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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	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 (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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	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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	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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	GLASS 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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	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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	HELMA (Helicopter Flight Safety in Maritime Operations) The HELMA project (Helicopter Flight Safety in Maritime Operations), led by the Institute of Flight Systems, is concerned with the systematic investigation, improvement and evaluation of helicopter operations in the maritime environment.
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	IAO (SESAR 2020 PJ28) The SESAR Integrated Airport Operations (IAO) project is a Very Large Scale Demonstration (VLD) to show the benefits of Air Traffic Management (ATM) solutions developed in SESAR 1.
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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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	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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	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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	MaRPAS (Maritime RPAS operation) In a security-critical situation in the maritime area, the Federal Police in Germany could employ the ship-based deployment of remotely piloted aircraft systems that may enable the automated acquisition of aerial images. The requirements and possibilities for such a scenario are examined in MaRPAS
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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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	MALORCA (Machine Learning of Speech Recognition Models for Controller Assistance) MALORCA will help to automatically adapt Assistant Based Speech Recognition (ABSR) systems to local needs, so that controllers can be supported by ABSR regardless of their operational environment.
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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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	MINIMA (Mitigating Negative Impacts of Monitoring high levels of Automation) Introducing systems that execute tasks formally executed by human operators and leaving the operator with a monitoring role often leads to unintended results: Operators are not able to perform as expected. MINIMA is working on a solution for this.
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	Optimode.NET Travellers do not want to spend their time in endless queues or waiting at the station for the train; they want to arrive at their destination quickly, punctually and relaxed. Optimode.NET intends to produce a seamless intermodal traffic management system for the optimised design of travel chains.
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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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	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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	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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	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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	SALSA (Satellite-based ADS-B for Lower Separation Minima) The objective of SALSA is to create the conditions required for the introduction of lower separation minima on transoceanic flight routes, especially on transatlantic routes from Europe to America which are already showing considerable traffic density during morning and evening peak periods.
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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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	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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	TRAWA (Traffic Awareness) In September 2016, the TRAWA (Traffic Awareness) project was launched in order to cleanly integrate unmanned aviation into manned aviation with both parties following the same rules.
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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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	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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