Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System (ALIAS)
Abstract
The Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program designed, developed, and demonstrated a kit enabling affordable, rapid automation of selected aircrew functions across a broad range of aircraft. ALIAS enabled reduction of aircrew workload and/or the number of on-board aircrew to improve performance. The program developed hardware and software to automate select aircrew functions and will employ novel, low impact approaches to interface with existing aircraft monitoring and control systems. The program also developed tractable approaches to rapidly capture crew-station specific skills and aircraft unique behaviors. To accomplish this, ALIAS leveraged recent advances in perception, manipulation, machine learning, reusable software architectures, autonomous systems architecture, and verification and validation. ALIAS culminated in a demonstration of the ability to rapidly adapt a single system to multiple aircraft and execute simple missions. This reliability enhancement capability enables new operational concepts for reuse of existing air assets and allows a reduction in the number of aircrew required.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- f8e1af06bd2ae2f1e189456f758fc6fb
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