How do you fly UAV’s through controlled airspace? What can be done to help operators and pilots navigate through NAS? Where can I find gate to gate mission preparation?
The answer is Adacel's ATC in a Box (ATCiB). Adacel has combined its award winning speech recognition and industry leading air traffic control simulation technology to take UAV operator training and mission rehearsal to the next level.
As there has been an ever increasing proliferation of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) and their practical applications, integration of UAVs into the commercial and GA traffic environment continues to be a primary goal of the industry. Safety is of paramount importance and the number one concern of all involved parties.
How to seamlessly operate these sophisticated UAV platforms within National Air Space System is a challenging task. Adacel has adapted its world leading Air Traffic Control (ATC) and speech recognition system (SRS) technology to create a world class simulation and stimulation capability. This new capability will better serve R&D, mission rehearsal, and operator training within the UAV community.
Benefits and Features of ATCiB for UAV's include:
- Huge cost savings over live aircraft flights and drones
- Intelligent decision making by ATCiB, based on decision of operator
- Adaptable to any geographical environment
- User definable training and research scenarios
- User definable traffic intensity
- Productivity increase and cost savings for rehearsal and training events
- Mission rehearsal capability
- Increase in standardization of all operators
- Efficient development and rehearsal of new CONOPS
- Includes multiple UAV models
- Highly accurate intelligent speech recognition technology
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Functional Overview
ATCiB for Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) is a simulated Air Traffic Control Environment. UAV Operators interact with simulated air traffic controller(s) and tactical agencies through the use of intelligent speech recognition and high quality synthetic speech responses. ATCiB generates a realistic level of air traffic and radio communications that are accurate within the context of the airspace and training situation. The UAV operator can become familiar with ATC procedures and radio phraseology by interacting with the simulated air traffic controllers while ATCiB generates target information that would be detectable by the appropriate sensor capabilities of the UAV and the UAV operator station.
ATCiB can be used to stimulate existing UAV simulators and operator consoles, or installed as a standalone system with its own UAV simulation capability. Flight models of the UAV can be user defined allowing training of multiple UAV types within a single system.
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Communications Services Provided:
- Air Traffic Control ,e.g., Tower, Ground, Departures, Arrivals etc
- Customizable mission rehearsal communications, e.g., Air to Air Refueling, AWACS, Forward Air Control, etc
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Simulation Services Provided:
- Traffic generation
- Synthetic 3D camera feeds
- Simulated sensor data
- Weather simulation
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