GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Τhis topic addresses the rise in maturity, with the objective to reach TRL4, supported by demonstrations, of technological and technical solutions necessary for future enhanced products. The proposals may consider existing manned and unmanned air platforms and future ones under development, including training aircraft in a long term perspective or as quick-win. Against the background of the design of new generation air combat platforms in Europe, or upgrades of those today in service, the following themes have to be considered:

• Adaptive human system collaboration: adaptive collaborative HMI for operations in a distributed environment with multiplatform assets and the definition of novel design and interaction principles for managing automated/autonomous aircraft functions and cooperating with System-of-Systems team mates, including adaptive interfaces;
• Visualisation: both visualisation products and advanced pilot information presentation capabilities;
• Crew monitoring system: systems and techniques able to support and assist pilots, and in general human operators in performing the flight and mission control in a more demanding operational environment;
• Interaction modalities: the need for innovative HMI technologies including e.g. wearable, visionics, haptics, vocal command, virtual operator assistant, Augmented Reality, 3D holography and implementation concepts.

All of those themes will be able to rely, at different levels, on different technology building blocks exploiting the opportunity to use advanced research techniques such as artificial intelligence, machine learning or others that can enable more advanced capabilities for the overall mission performance.

The budget earmarked on 2021 appropriations for this action will be completed by an amount of EUR 109 000 000 from 2022 appropriations. This 2022 complementary budget is subject to the adoption of a separate financing decision.