Advanced Automation Systems design

Author

Benel, Russell A. ; Dancey, Robert D. ; Dehn, Jon D. ; Gutmann, James C. ; Smith, Donald M.

Author_Institution

IBM, Rockville, MD, USA

Volume

77

Issue

11

fYear

1989

fDate

11/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1653

Lastpage

1660

Abstract

The Advanced Automation System (AAS) is being developed for the US Federal Aviation Administration to provide air traffic control automation support well into the twenty-first century. The authors provide an overview of the AAS design and discuss key-requirement design drivers. The extremely high system-availability requirements are described, and the architectural, hardware, and software approaches to meeting them are discussed. The replacement of paper flight progress strips with an all-electronic display workstation for the air traffic controller has demanded a major effort in human engineering. The scope and results of this effort to date are described

Keywords

air traffic computer control; engineering graphics; engineering workstations; interactive systems; systems engineering; user interfaces; AAS; ATC; Advanced Automation System; US Federal Aviation Administration; air traffic control; all-electronic display workstation; human engineering; key-requirement design drivers; system-availability requirements; Air traffic control; Automatic control; Communication system control; Design automation; Hardware; Poles and towers; Radar tracking; Software design; System testing; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5.47728

Filename

47728