Overview
- Covers most relevant aspects from basic psychophysical considerations over work analysis to design, applied optics and engineering
- Shows how to replace the conventional airport control tower by a new "Remote Tower" work environment
- Presents interdisciplinary research and development
- Extensive appendices contain practical guidelines on structured work analysis, questionnaires, technical design fundamentals, signal detection theory and Bayes inference for data analysis, and RTO/RTC simulator environment
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Research Topics in Aerospace (RTA)
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Table of contents(13 chapters)
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Fundamentals and Preconditions
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Remote Tower Simulation and Remote Tower Center
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RTO Engineering and Field Testing
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Alternative Approaches and Perspectives
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Flight Guidance, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Braunschweig, Germany
Norbert Fürstenau
About the editor
Dr. phil.-nat. Norbert Fürstenau, Dipl. Physiker, studied physics from 1971 to 1978 at Universities of Braunschweig, Darmstadt and Frankfurt. In 1977 he received the Diplom Physiker degree from the Inst. of Nuclear Physics of TU-Darmstadt and in 1981 the Dr. phil.-nat. degree from Frankfurt University for research on Laser applications in Biophysics. In his dissertation he investigated the generation of large molecular clusters (predecessors of Carbon Buckeyballs) through Laser evaporation in a micro mass analyser, and his interest started in the emerging topic of complex systems and Synergetics. After a short period as a post-doc researcher including teaching tasks at the Institute of Medical Physics / Biophysics, he accepted a permanent position at the DLR Inst. of Flight Guidance in Braunschweig in 1981. Starting with research in inertial navigation and Laser gyro technology, he initialized in 1984 the Fiber Optic Sensors research as group leader at the Department of Inertial Navigation / Measurement Technologies. The main focus was directed to fiber optics based interferometric micro sensors and methods for structural monitoring (so called fiber optic smart structures). During these years numerous research visits and international cooperations with laboratories in Canada, Korea, and Russia resulted in a large number of conference and journal publications.
After the research focus of the Inst. of Fligt Guidance had turned more and more away from aircraft towards air traffic, the research in measurement technologies gradually ended and in 1999 the editor joined the Human Factors Department where he started the “Virtual Tower” concept study (2002–2004), after winning a first prize within DLR’s first “Visionary Projects” competition, endowed with an initial research grant. He was project leader of DLR’s “Remote Airport Tower Operations” projects RApTOR (2005-2007) and RAiCe (Remote Airport Traffic Control Center, 2008-2012). In 2010 he spent a research semester at NASA-Ames Advanced Displays Lab.(working with Steve Ellis, author of the foreword and (co-) author of two book chapters), preparing psychophysics experiments for Remote Tower characterization. In 2011 the editor was again winner at the fifth DLR-Visionary Projects competition. The proposal: “Extreme Events Prediction” received a starting grant that supported his growing interest in complex systems dynamics. In 2014 he joined the Controller Assistance department where he is currently responsible for DLR’s contribution to the European collaborative project “Robust-ATM” (2013 – 2016) that addresses air traffic optimization under disturbance using advanced mathematical methods. His research interest had always an interdisciplinary touch and is presently focused on nonlinear dynamics and modeling of diverse complex systems including human perception (two recent journal papers in “Biological Cybernetics” and “Cognitive Processing”) and air traffic management under external stochastic disturbance. He is (co-) author of ca. 120 conference and journal papers and 17 patents. The Remote Tower patent was recently licensed to a company for commercialisation, and it describes the basics of an increasing number of installations worldwide, presently under operational validation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virtual and Remote Control Tower
Book Subtitle: Research, Design, Development and Validation
Editors: Norbert Fürstenau
Series Title: Research Topics in Aerospace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28719-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80409-5Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28719-5Published: 13 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2194-8240
Series E-ISSN: 2194-8259
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 337
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 113 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Control and Systems Theory, Image Processing and Computer Vision