ALICIA

All Condition Operations and Innovative Cockpit Infrastructure.

ALICIA addresses the ACARE objective of increasing time efficiency within the future air transport system. The aim will be to develop a new and scalable cockpit application which can extend operations of aircraft in degraded conditions All Conditions Operations.
A key objective will be to deliver an extensible application that can be applied to many aircraft types. This will necessarily entail a new cockpit infrastructure capable of delivering enhanced situation awareness to the crew whilst simultaneously reducing crew workload and improving overall aircraft safety. All Conditions Operations, other challenging applications and the desire for reduced crew will mean that the crew station interface will be challenged beyond the reach of the current state-of-the-art. Accordingly, a radical rethink is required to manage the escalating complexity whilst simultaneously enhancing safety and controlling through life cost. Thus, the next significant step in cockpit design will require a holistic integration of technologies allowing the crew to process and act on information concurrently and intuitively, using an optimum combination of their visual, tactile and audio senses.
In the concept envisaged, use will be made of precision navigation, synthetic vision, high integrity data bases, sensor and sensor data and image fusion, obstacle warning systems, taxi autopilots, touch screens, large area displays, voice/audio and multimodal input/output devices to deliver an All Conditions Operations application integrated within an enhanced crew interface. A major objective will be to deliver a common, and open standard interface which can manage existing core applications across all aircraft types whilst simultaneously supporting the needs of challenging new applications.
The ALICIA project is uniquely placed to deliver the capability necessary to facilitate the next big step in crew station design.

 

Coordinator:
AGUSTA WESTLAND UK (UK)

 

Other participants:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale-DIN
- Resp. Scientifico: Dott.ssa Francesca De Crescenzio

CAE PLC (UK)
AYDIN YAZILIM VE ELEKTRONIK SANAYI (Turkey)
STIRLING DYNAMICS LTD (UK)
UNIVERSITA TA MALTA (Malta)
AVTECH SWEDEN AB (Sweden)
SDT UZAY VE SAVUNMA TEKNOLOJILERI BILISIM URETIM DANISMANLIK TICARET A.S. (Turkey)  
DBS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING GMBH (Germany)
DEEP BLUE SRL (Italy)
USE2ACES BV (The Netherlands)
INGENIERA DE SISTEMAS PARA LA DEFENSA DE ESPANA SA-ISDEFE (Spain)
LATECOERE (France)
ROCKWELL COLLINS FRANCE (France)
GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LTD (UK)
ALENIA AERONAUTICA SPA (Italy)
INTERCONSULTING S.R.L. - (Italy)
FUNDACION EUROPEAN VIRTUAL ENGINEERING (Spain)
INTUILAB (France)
FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE THE CENTRAL AEROHYDRODYNAMIC INSTITUTE NAMED AFTER PROF. N.E. ZHUKOVSKY  (Russia)
JEPPESEN GMBH (Germany)  
GTD SISTEMAS DE INFORMACION SA (Spain)
OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES (France)
AGUSTA S.P.A (Italy)
AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES, A.S. (Czech Republic)
A-VOLUTE (France)
BARCO NV (Belgium)
AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS (France)
WYTWORNIA SPRZETU KOMUNIKACYJNEGO PZL-SWIDNIK SPOLKA AKCYJNA (Poland)
METEO-FRANCE (France)
DASSAULT AVIATION SA (France)
DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBH (Germany) 
SAAB AKTIEBOLAG (Sweden)
BAE SYSTEMS OPERATIONS LTD (UK)
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV - (Germany)   
CENTRO ITALIANO RICERCHE AEROSPAZIALI SCPA (Italy)
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BRAUNSCHWEIG (Germany) 
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON-THALES AVIONICS SA (France)
EADS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Germany) 
THE PROVOST FELLOWS & SCHOLARS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN (Eire)
STICHTING NATIONAAL LUCHT- EN RUIMTEVAARTLABORATORIUM  (The Netherlands)

 

Start date 01/09/2009

End date 31/08/2014

Duration 60 months

Project Reference 233682

Project cost 46.687.838 EURO

Project Funding 27.813.675 EURO

Area FP7-COOPERATION-AAT-TRANSPORT

Subprogramme Area Integrated approach to advanced avionics systems for new cockpit architectures and aircraft all-conditions operation

Contract type Collaborative Project - Large-scale integrating project