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Safety of Controller-Pilot Dialogue |
Partners: THALES Research & Technology, IntuiLab and Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse.
Project Leader: Olivier Grisvard (THALES R&T).
The reliability of the communications between air traffic controllers and pilots is of paramount importance to air traffic safety. Many communication problems arise from undetected misunderstandings between the pilot and the controller during radio conversations. An automated tracking of the pilot-controller dialogue, in order to check the matching between clearances (controller) and acknowledgments (pilot), coupled with a verification of the effectiveness of the flight parameter modifications would dramatically improve flight safety.
The purpose of the SCOPE project is to increase the reliability of pilot-controller communications using automatic speech recognition, in order to track the dialogue between the controller and the pilot, and multimodal information presentation, in order to present the results of the tracking to the controller through an enhanced interface.
The first task of SCOPE consists in identifying and evaluating the most appropriate tool for automatic voice recognition in Air Traffic Control (ATC), with a special focus on availability, robustness and ability to be incorporated into ATC systems. The next task concerns the modeling of the pilot-controller communication language in order to build the grammar for the selected recognizer. The third task focuses on the design of a multimodal interface for the presentation of the speech tracking results to the controller. The last task consists in implementing a demonstrator of the tracking system with its multimodal interface.
The SCOPE team is composed of experts in robust voice and language recognition from the Human Interaction Laboratory at THALES Research & Technology, researchers in multimodal interaction from the DIAMANT team at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), and experienced user interface designers and innovators in ATC from IntuiLab. THALES R&T is the corporate research center of the THALES group. IRIT is a French academic research institute in computer science. IntuiLab is a French SME specialized in the development of user interfaces.
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