Advancing Aeronautical Safety A Review of NASA's Aviation Safety-Related Research Programs (2010) / Chapter Skim
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1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
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The FAA undertakes applied research in support of its operational and regulatory programs and to address pressing safety problems that arise in the field. The aviation industry also undertakes applied research in support of safe product development, use, and operations.
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ARMD acknowledged this broader interest and proposed that the study review all work in the Aviation Safety Program as well as research having significant safety relevance in the Airspace Systems Program and the Funda mental Aeronautics Program. The committee concurred with this proposed scope, wanting to ensure that the study would cover the gamut of aviation safety-related research undertaken by NASA while recognizing that a safety interest permeates all aeronautics research.
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Although most of the agency's research directly related to aviation safety is undertaken by the first, the latter two also undertake research with direct safety relevance. Each of these three ARMD programs is charged with conducting "long-term, cutting-edge research for the benefit of the broad aeronautics community."10 The stated aim of the Aviation Safety Program is to develop innovative concepts, tools, and technologies to improve the intrinsic safety attributes of current and future aircraft.11 The Airspace Systems Program aims to develop revolutionary concepts, capabilities, and technologies that will enable significant increases in the capacity, efficiency, and flexibility of the National Airspace System.
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and maintaining a broad foundational research program aimed at "preserving the nation's intellectual stewardship and mastery of aeronautics core competencies." 14 The Aviation Safety Program's funds are divided among four major research projects, or portfolios: Aircraft Aging and Durability (AAD) , Integrated Intelligent Flight Deck (IIFD)
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Integrated Intelligent Flight Deck • Assigning clear roles and responsibilities to human and automated agents; • Predicting human and automated agent performance in both normal and abnormal conditions; • Evaluating human, automation, and joint human-automation performance to help make automation more comprehensible to pilots; • Predicting joint human-automation performance in operating environments that are not yet realized, such as NextGen's trajectory-based operations; • Achieving a "better than visual" flight operations capability; • Enabling a highly collaborative working environment for flight deck system operators. Integrated Resilient Aircraft Control • Understanding the dynamics of current and future aircraft when in damaged and upset conditions; • Developing control systems that adapt reliably to both the anticipated and the unanticipated; • Developing aircraft guidance for emergency operation; • Modeling and sensing airframe and engine icing; • Modeling effective and reliable human-automation systems.
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, Aviation Safety Program, Aero nautics Research Mission Directorate, NASA, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2009, available at http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/nra_pdf/ iifd_tech_plan_2009.pdf. 18 See NASA, Integrated Vehicle Health Management Technical Plan, Version 2.0, Aviation Safety Program, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, NASA, Washington, D.C., November 2, 2009, available at http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/nra_pdf/ivhm_tech_plan_c1.pdf.
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Nevertheless, the program does coordinate with the Aviation Safety Program as appropriate to help ensure that certain safety research concerns are addressed. Two research areas within the Fundamental Aeronautics Program's Subsonic Rotary Wing Project are focused on rotorcraft safety, specifically flights involving hazardous icing conditions and crash survivability.
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The Fundamental Aeronautics Program's research seeks to improve the models and methodologies (validated by performing component and full-scale helicopter crash tests) used to predict crashworthiness of rotorcraft and to develop and demonstrate advanced structural concepts for improved energy absorption and crashworthiness.
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