AI Situational Awareness Foundation for Advancing Automation

AISA - final close-out meeting

The AISA project had its final close-out meeting with the SESAR Joint Undertaking on the 25th of November 2022. It was agreed that the project has achieved all the main objectives including the ones related to the communication, dissemination and exploitation activities.

Press relase: Closing of AISA – an air traffic management related AI project

The AI Situational Awareness Foundation for Advancing Automation project (together with other automation related SESAR projects) aimed to give an answer to the capacity challenges of the European air traffic management system. The AISA concept will support air traffic control by providing more and better information to air traffic controllers.

The project explored how artificial intelligence will be able to share the same situational awareness as air traffic controllers have. To test the viability of the concept, human-in-the-loop simulations were conducted in Zurich in the facilities of Skyguide with the involvement of licensed air traffic controllers. The final results of the experiments indicated that 80% of the monitoring tasks selected, as the most primary and useful ones in the AISA Concept of Operations, were successfully automated.

Now, after a two and half years lifetime, the project is approaching its closure by the end of November 2022. The project has prepared a short video explaining the main activities and results, which can be found both at the website and on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f62heKIMgbc. Besides the final project brochure and all the technical deliverables are available for download at: www.aisa-project.eu.

Team members of the project will participate at the SESAR Innovation Days in December in Budapest and they are ready to meet stakeholders who wish to learn more on the project.