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Development and Validation of an ATC Research Simulator

ATM research and development relies heavily on simulation methods. For studies involving human factors, real-time human-in-the-loop simulations provide the most reliable results. From the perspective of a researcher, these types of studies are often also the most complex to perform. One of the issues researchers face is the lack of suitable research simulators that can be freely modified to perform in the desired manner. Commercial simulators are mostly produced for training and each upgrade, especially development of custom modules, is quite costly, sometimes even prohibitively so. For this reason, in this paper the process of research simulator development will be presented, from the definition of simulator requirements to simulator validation and operation. Some of the key technologies will also be presented along the way. The simulator presented here was built and used to examine the effect of trajectory- based operations on air traffic complexity in en-route sectors. Authors believe that although this design is not generic enough to be used for all purposes, there is still a large number of research topics that can be examined with such simulator. Furthermore, methods and solutions presented in this paper can also be applied to other simulator designs.

ATC; simulation; real-time; human-in-the-loop; air traffic complexity

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