OSYRIS

Arrival Manager
During the coming decades air traffic will rise enormously and therefore also the workload of the controllers at airports and air traffic control centers. In order to adapt to the rising requirements in safety and efficiency of traffic flow an Arrival Manager is key for this task. Barco has designed the OSYRIS Arrival Manager to increase the airports' capacities and to reduce controllers' workload by optimizing the traffic flow. OSYRIS helps to make optimum use of the available resources, to make flight operations for the airlines more efficient, to improve flight profiles and avoid holding patterns, thus reducing ecological problems like pollution and noise. OSYRIS is a perfect tool to ensure smooth and efficient traffic flow with advanced advice generation for controllers. The system can easily be integrated into customers environments and offers interfaces to departure management.

OSYRIS: The solution to land aircraft exactly on time

OSYRIS (Barco Orthogon's SYstem for Realtime Inbound Sequencing) automatically determines arrival sequences based on preferred arrival times. The defined separation minima and local operational procedures are taken into account as constraints. It provides advisories in order to achieve the suggested arrival times. The actual traffic evolution is monitored continuously and proposed sequences are updated dynamically. The basic philosophy of OSYRIS is to solve predictable congestions over sequencing points already far outside in the En Route Control Centers and thus avoid problems in the Approach and Terminal Centers. OSYRIS continuously monitors the traffic situation and takes it as a base for the advisories the system gives to the controllers. The controllers include these suggestions in their planning,

but they are also able to modify them or introduce additional constraints into the calculations of OSYRIS. Finally the controllers make their decisions and send the corresponding instructions to the pilots. The pilots' actions are in turn considered due to traffic monitoring.

Integration with a departure manager either manual or automated is already foreseen. OSYRIS supports different rules that are useful for any kind of departure management: The introduction of reserved slots relative to a given flight. The change of the runway acceptance rate/minimum separation for arrivals in order to prepare the introduction of departures. A function to generate departure slots within the arrival sequence. These slots might be requested from an external user (either a controller or a departure manager). OSYRIS will keep these requests in mind until the corresponding slot is accepted. The provision of departure times for flights from local airports around the served one.

OSYRIS optimizes its advisories according to different goals, such as minimum total delay, minimum average delay, or minimum fuel consumption. Advisories and results are mainly presented in form of the sequence position and RTOs (Requested Time Over) for configured sets of way points. The RTOs could be used directly to guide flights, e.g. as goals to be achieved with the help of on-board FMS. Additionally OSYRIS generates detailed advice (e.g. speed advice, Top Of Descent, delay distribution over En Route sectors) to reach the given RTO.

Reduced workload for controllers Barcos concept for OSYRIS is to generate advisories for the controllers and automate specific tasks and calculations to reduce the controllers' workload. OSYRIS centralizes the planning and organizes the distribution of calculated results to all related sectors and working positions. Therefore all controllers get immediately informed on the global planning and can avoid contradicting advice from successive sectors. Additionally OSYRIS supports silent coordination between different sectors and maps the operational work flow of the controller's task for specific sets of flights which results in a significant reduction of the number of phone calls between the controllers.

OSYRIS features

all necessary arrival management mechanisms and also allows for simple integration into existing complex operational environments. Easy configuration OSYRIS can be configured in wide ranges by a set of easily readable ASCII configuration files, e.g. number of runways, sequencing strategies, runway allocation rules, ATC procedures, and others. OSYRIS provides automatic consistency checks for the configuration. Prototyping OSYRIS provides a test and simulation environment for prototyping. Within this environment test scenarios can be run to evaluate tentative configurations. This allows to analyze requirements imposed by airspace structure and ATC procedures.

Consistent sequences for all configurable points OSYRIS generates consistent sequences not only for a single runway or several independent runways, but also for dependent runway configurations and at other configurable points at the same time.

Ready for Data Link OSYRIS generates advisories and passes them to the radar data processor, to the flight data processor, and to the dedicated Arrival Manager display. In future systems, advisories could also be sent directly to the aircraft by data link. Advisories pertain to: speed control, Top of Descent, cleared flight level, suggestion of FMS (Flight Management System) approach routes, and remaining holding time.

Open architecture for utmost flexibility OSYRIS covers all important features of a stand-alone sequencer. Nevertheless, an arrival management system can never be defined so general as to fit to every possible operational environment: every airport has its specific airspace structure and operational procedures. Therefore OSYRIS comes with an open system architecture that includes

OSYRIS Screenshots: Above: Sequence presentation for two Initial Approach Fixes. Top left: Time to gain and time to loose advice can be displayed in the track label. Additional sequencing information can be displayed in the extended track label. Bottom left: Traffic monitoring for approaching traffic, SWR3053 has already passed the 10NM distance on the localizer indicated by a green symbol.

OSYRIS functions

Calculation of departure times of neighboring airports OSYRIS includes the calculation of departure times for the airport under control as well as for airports in its vicinity.

Multi-runway and multi-sector sequencing concept OSYRIS determines sequences not only at several runways, but also at different airports and other points en-route, typically at the feeder gates into the TMA (Terminal Maneuvering Area). This concept can be extended to cover several sector entry and exit points as well thus leading to a true multi-sector sequencing concept. It establishes the basis for the support of delay sharing mechanisms between different sectors and even with adjacent centers.

Flexible runway allocation rules

The runway allocation is based on a set of pre-configured rules (strategies). Depending on the strategy additional flight plan data listed below can be taken into account for runway selection if configured: Route Departure airport Airline Wake Turbulence Categories Engine type Departure airport

Supporting strategies

different

sequencing

OSYRIS builds arrival sequences which meet preferred arrival times of individual aircraft as close as possible. The defined separation minima and local operational procedures are taken into account as constraints. The system can also be adapted to other sequencing strategies such as minimum delay or minimum fuel consumption. Specific algorithms allow to handle short route flights and late appearing flights without major changes in the whole sequence.

An extension of the runway allocation rules is the runway balancing function. A runway allocation rule can include, besides the primary, a secondary runway. If flights start building up delays on the primary runway, the runway-balancing algorithm will start allocating flights to the secondary runway.

Automatic adjustments for traffic evolution OSYRIS includes a precise 4-dimensional trajectory prediction that provides ETOs (Estimated Time Over) to a very high degree of accuracy based on radar tracks, flight plan data, aircraft performance data, and weather forecasts. It monitors the actual traffic evolution continuously, detects deviations, and adjusts automatically its plans to the real situation. The output thus provides also valuable information for airline operators and airport authorities.

References

Skyguide OSYRIS forms the kernel of CALM, Skyguide's Computer-assisted Approach and Landing Management System, which went operational at Zurich airport Kloten in March 2001. With three runways Kloten operates approximately 70 movements per hour which means about 900 movements every day (arrivals and departures in the year 2000).

Lockheed Martin ATM Since 2002 OSYRIS and Barco Orthogons Trajectory Predictor component are integral components of Lockheed Martins SkyLine air traffic management (ATM) product line. OSYRIS expands Skylines capability to operate in a collaborative decisionmaking operational environment. The flexible and customizable system de-sign of OSYRIS and the Trajectory Predictor component supported a convenient integration with Skyline. Lockheed Martin and Barco Orthogon have formally cooperated since 1998 when Barcos ODS Toolbox was integrated into Skyline. In 2002 Lockheed Martin and Barco signed an expanded enterprise agreement to collaborate on enhanced product offerings for the worldwide aviation community.

Controller in silent communication with Approach at Zurich Airport

EUROCONTROL In December 2002 Barcos OSYRIS Arrival Manager successfully passed the site acceptance test at EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre in Brtigny-surOrge, France. OSYRIS provides a set of advanced functionality and an interface to a Departure Manager. The system is used for pre-operational trials within the scope of the European ATM Validation Platform (EVP) project, a series of trials funded by the European Commission and EUROCONTROL to validate future air-ground tools and concepts through shadow mode operation.

Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Barco, in cooperation with NCS Group, Singapore, was selected by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) to optimize the arrival management at Changi Airport. The contract encompasses the integration of Barco's OSYRIS Arrival Manager software with the Singapore air traffic control system. OSYRIS will facilitate smooth management of arrival air traffic within the Singapore Flight Information Region (FIR).

ACC Controller working with CALM at Zurich Airport

OSYRIS integration

Technical requirements Runs on all common UNIX based operation systems and on Windows Recording and Replay, including active and passive replay for the HMIs Communication via TCP-IP or CORBA interface Complete stand alone test environment, including special HMI training modules Up to 130 trajectory calculations per second to support What-if-scenarios System monitoring and control via SNMP, or CORBA based supervision Complete user defined failover procedures via SMCF

Support for system introduction Barco offers different tools and services for an efficient system accomodation: Fully configurable test environment for specification phase Training course for OSYRIS configuration On-site support during optimization phase of system

External Systems
(Radar data, FPLs, Meteo Data)

OSYRIS
CT HMI (CW, Train, Tech) HMI (ACC, APP , RWY) SE TP MM RAD I/F FPL I/F MET I/F

SMCF

COMLIB++

TCP/IP, SNMP, ...

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Standard Components SE TP MM SMCF Sequence Engine Trajectory Prediction Message Manager with COMLIB++ System Monitoring, Control and Failover

System Specific Components CT I/F HMI Configuration Tools Interfaces Human Machine Interface e.g. based on ODS TOOLBOX

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