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General articles published by IFATS

IFATS concept illustrated

Video describing the main components and concepts of IFATS approach. (copyright IFATS consortium 2006)
(video in wmv format, 4.8 M).

IFATS concept - presentation paper

This paper (and associated presentation) has been presented at the Eurocontrol Innovative Workshop held in Bretigny (France) on December 06-08 of 2005).
(the paper in pdf format, 380 K)
(the presentation in pdf format, 930 K)

IFATS concept explained

Several presentations together with their comments (some are missing) are explaining parts of IFATS concepts. This material is publicly available. (Copyright IFATS consortium 2006).

Please do not hesitate ton contact each designated correspondant in case you are interested by more information on each topic.

  • General Presentation of IFATS  
    Slides and comments available.
    For more information, please contact Claude Le Tallec (claude.le-tallec<at>onera.fr).
    • (zip file containing both presentation and comments in pdf format, 3.6 M)
  • The influence of weather forecast accuracy on trajectories replanning 
    Two presentations and correponding comments are available.
    For more information, please contact Pr. Moshe Idan (moshe.idan<at>technion.ac.il)
    • (zip file containing both presentations and comments in pdf format, 1M)
  • The Autonomous Take off and landing 
    A presentation and its comments is available
    For more information, please contact Shlomo Rozental (srosentl<at>iai.co.il)
    • (zip file containing both presentation and comments in pdf format, 571 K)
  • IFATS communications needs and architecture 
    A presentation on this topic is available.
    For more infomation, please contact Matthieu Colet (Matthieu.COLET<at>fr.thalesgroup.com)
    • (zip file containing only the presentation in pdf format, 194K)
  • Aircraft health monitoring, fault detection 
    A presentation on this subject is available
    For more information, please contact Pr. Spilios Fassois (fassois<at>upatras.gr)
    • (zip file containing a presentation only in pdf format, 4.6 M)
  • Aircraft separation and collision avoidance 
    Presentation with its comments and video available.
    For more information, please contact Ciro Carbone (c.carbone<at>cira.it)
    • (zip file containing a presentation and comments in pdf format, a video in avi format, 4,7M)
  • IFATS concept safety analysis 
    A presentation is available.
    For more information, please contact Shlomo Rozental (srosentl<at>iai.co.il)
    • (zip file containing a presentation in pdf format, 120 K)
  • IFATS concept certification aspects 
    A presentation and its comments available.
    Form more information, please contact Muriel Brunet (Muriel.Brunet<at>onera.fr)
    • (zip file containing both the presentation and comments in pdf format, 89 K)
  • IFATS Aircraft cost estimation  
    A presentation is available
    For more information, please contact Shlome Rozental (srosentl<at>iai.co.il)
    • (zip file containing presentation only in pdf format, 134 K)
  • Air traffic simulation in the area of Frankfurt airport 
    A presentation is available.
    For more information, please contact Helmut Toebben ( Helmut.Toebben<at>dlr.de)
    • (zip file containing only the presentation in pdf format, 1.6 M)
  • Evaluation of IFATS concept 
    Presentation and comments available.
    For more information, please contact Louis Drouot (louis.drouot<at>erdyn.fr)
    • (zip file containing both the presentation and the comments in pdf format, 368K)
  • Simulation of the ground operations in the airport zone 
    Presentation and comments available.
    For more information, please contact Jean-Loup Farges (Jean-Loup.Farges<at>cert.fr)
    • (zip file containing presentation and corresponding comments in pdf format, 349 K)
  • IFATS societal acceptance 
    Presentation and comments available.
    Please contact Hélène Jacquet for more information (helene.jacquet<at>erdyn.fr).
    • (zip file containing both the presentation and comments in pdf format, 205 K)
  • Roadmap to future ATS 
    Presentation and associated comments available.
    For more information, please contact Antoine Joulia (antoine.joulia<at>onera.fr).
    • (zip file containing both presentation and comments in pdf format, 652 K)
  • Comments forom the user groups and participants to workshop 
    IFATS organised the review of results (intermediate and final), by external stakeholders (the user group) and also during two workshop organised to present IFATS concept. These presentations are relating respective comments made by these actors.

    Two presentations are available. For more information, please contact Marco Fabbri (mfabbri<at>aeronautica.alenia.it)
    • (zip file containing two presentation in pdf format, 279K)

    Full high level description of IFATS Project

    Slides presenting the project as it has been defined, roles of the partners, anticipated results (copyright IFATS Consortium 2004)
    (slides in pdf format, 689K)
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    Scientific papers published by IFATS

    IFATS autonomous aircraft, communication by IAI

    A communication has been presented by our industrial partner IAI, related to IFATS autonomous aircraft.

    For more information on this matter, please contact directly Shlomo Rozental (srosentl<at>iai.co.il).

  • IFATS autonomous aircraft  Shlomo Rozental,
    in the “47th ISRAEL annual conference on aerospace sciences”

    • Collision Avoidance, publications by CIRA

    Several papers have been published on the topic of "Collision avoidance" by CIRA, who developped new algorithms in the framework of IFATS project.

    Please contact directly Ciro Carbonne (c.carbone<at>cira.it) for more information on this topic.

  • “A Novel 3D Geometric Algorithm for Aircraft Autonomous Collision Avoidance”,  
    C. Carbone, U. Ciniglio, F. Corraro, S. Luongo, 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’06), December 13-15, 2006, San Diego, California USA.

  • “Decision-Making Algorithms for Aircraft Autonomous Collision Avoidance” 
    C. Carbone, U. Ciniglio, F. Corraro, S. Luongo, , 5th EUROCONTROL Innovative Research Workshop & Exhibition, December 5-7, 2006, Bretigny-sur-Orge, France.

  • “Autonomous Aircraft Separation Assurance and Collision Avoidance Algorithm”,  
    C. Carbone, U. Ciniglio, F. Corraro, S. Luongo, submitted to 7th ATM Seminar, July, 2007, Barcelona, Spain.

  • “Aircraft Collision Avoidance: An Optimal 3D Analytical Solution for Real-time Applications”,  
    C. Carbone, U. Ciniglio, F. Corraro, S. Luongo, submitted to 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’07), December 12-14, 2007, New Orleans, LA, USA.

    • Fault detection, publication by the University of PATRAS

    Several papers have been published in journals, or presented during international conferences, related to the results obtained during the project by our partner from the University of PATRAS (Greece).

    For more information on this topic, please contact directly Pr. Spilios Fassois (fassois<at>upatras.gr)

  • “FDI for Aircraft Systems Using Stochastic Pooled NARMAX Representations: Design and Assessment”  
    D.G. Dimogianopoulos, J.D. Hios and S.D. Fassois to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2007.

  • “Integral Minimum Variance-Like Control for Pooled Nonlinear Representations with Application to an Aircraft System ”  
    D.G Dimogianopoulos, J.D. Hios and S. D. Fassois to appear in the International Journal of Control, 2007.

  • “On-board Statistical Detection and Compensation of Anomalous Pilot Aircraft Interactions” 
    D.G Dimogianopoulos, J.D. Hios and S. D. Fassois to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2007.

  • “On-board Statistical Detection and Control of Anomalous Pilot Aircraft Interactions”  
    D.G Dimogianopoulos, J.D. Hios and S. D. Fassois in the 16th IFAC World Congress, July 4-8, 2005, Prague, Czech Republic.

  • "Nonlinear Integral Minimum Variance-Like Control with Application to an Aircraft System ”  
    D.G Dimogianopoulos, J.D. Hios and S. D. Fassois in the 14th Mediterranean Conference on Control Automation, June 28-30, 2006, Ancona, Italy.

  • “Fault Detection and Isolation in Aircraft Systems Using Stochastic Nonlinear Modelling of Flight Data Dependencies” 
    D.G Dimogianopoulos, J.D. Hios and S. D. Fassois in the 14th Mediterranean Conference on Control Automation, June 28-30, 2006, Ancona, Italy.

  • “Statistical Fault Detection and Identification in Aircraft Systems via Functionally Pooled Nonlinear Modelling of Flight Data Dependencies” 
    D.G Dimogianopoulos, J.D. Hios and S. D. Fassois in the 25th International Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS), September 3-8, 2006, Hamburg, Germany.

  • “On-Board Engine FDI in Autonomous Aircrafts Using Compact Stochastic Nonlinear Modelling of Flight Signal Dependencies”  
    D.G. Dimogianopoulos, J.D. Hios and S.D. Fassois to appear in the Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC) 2007, July 2-5, 2007, Kos, Greece.

    • Trajectory planning, publication by the TECHNION

    A publication related to results obtained in the framework of IFATS by our partner from TECHNION University (Israel) is presented here under.

    For additional information, please contact directly Pr. Moshe Idan (moshe.idan<at>technion.ac.il).

  • 2D Trajectory Re-planning and Optimization in the Presence of Stationary Obstacles 
    Lior Ben-Yshai, Moshe Idan,
    IACAS 47, Feb. 22, 2007, Haifa, Israel
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    Press kits and communications made by IFATS partners

    Article published in DLR journal (german)

    This article has been published in DLR journal, following the meeting held in Braunschweig on december 2006.

    Available in German only.
    (pdf format, 318 K)

    IFATS in French, ONERA

    A document explaining IFATS concept to the french speaking public is available.
    (pdf format, 280 K)
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