Supporting air traffic control collaboration with a tabletop system

International audienceCollaboration is key to safety and efficiency in Air Traffic Control. Legacy paper-based systems enable seamless and non-verbal collaboration, but trends in new software and hardware for ATC tend to separate controllers more and more, which hinders collaboration. This paper presents a new interactive system designed to support collaboration in ATC. We ran a series of interviews and workshops to identify collaborative situations in ATC. From this analysis, we derived a set of requirements to support collaboration: support mutual awareness, communication and coordination, dynamic task allocation and simultaneous use with more than two people. We designed a set of new interactive tools to fulfill the requirements, by using a multi-user tabletop surface, appropriate feedthrough, and reified and partially-accomplishable actions. Preliminary evaluation shows that feedthrough is important, users benefit from a number of tools to communicate and coordinate their actions, and the tabletop is actually usable by three people both in tightly coupled tasks and parallel, individual activities. At a higher level, we also found that co-location is not enough to generate mutual awareness if users are not engaged in meaningful collaboration

Coupling infrared thermography and acoustic emission for damage study in CFRP composites

Improvement of the design and reliability of aeronautical composite structures requires an identification and characterization of their damage evolution. By providing surface thermal fields, infrared thermography has allowed considerable progress in the detection of degradation phenomena. On the other hand, acoustic emission is employed to record the transient waves resulting from released energy during a damage process. This study intends to combine simultaneously these nondestructive methods to investigate the damage behaviour of carbon-fibre composites under tensile load. Experimental results show some correlations between thermal and acoustic events induced by the load according to the damage development

Damage detection in CFRP by coupling acoustic emission and infrared thermography

Acoustic emission (AE) and infrared thermography (IT) are simultaneously combined to identify damage evolution in carbon fibre reinforced composites. Samples are subjected to tensile static loads while acoustic emission sensors and an infrared camera record the acoustic signals and the temperature variations respectively. Unsupervised pattern recognition procedure is applied to identify damage mechanisms from acoustic signals. Thermodynamic arguments are introduced to estimate global heat source fields from thermal measurements and anisotropic heat conduction behavior is taken into account by means of homogenization technique. A spatial and time analysis of acoustic events and heat sources is developed and some correlation range in the AE and IT events amplitude are identified

Numerical study of an arcan tensile compression shear test in dynamic: application to bonded joints

This paper presents a numerical study of the Arcan TCS testing device under dynamic conditions. This test is commonly used to characterize the mechanical behavior of bonded joints subjected to combined quasi-static loadings. In this study, the question of its extensibility to dynamic loadings by the use of an impactor guided in a drop tower is investigated. A dedicated finite element model is built under the plane stress assumption. Stress distributions in the adhesive are analysed trought time ans space for several configurations

Thermographic investigation of heat source in transversely isotropic composites

This paper deals with the estimation of heat sources from infrared thermographic measures on anisotropic CFRP (Carbon-Fibre Reinforced Composites). Such procedure combines the data processing of the thermal signal, especially as spatial and temporal derivation quantities involved in the heat equation are notably affected by the measurement noise, and the determination of thermo-physical properties of the material, especially to account for the anisotropic conductivity behavior of the material. A comparative analysis of different filtering techniques is done to define a filtering method able to decrease the noise while keeping the useful features of the signal. Then, we use a homogenization scheme based on single-inhomogeneity solutions of Eshelby to derive the transversely isotropic thermal conductivity tensor

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