Projects

Beside Helicopters for time critical rescue and search tasks, air-taxis will have a fundamental role in future transportation. Starting with piloted Air-Taxis, these will certainly become autonomous. Therefore safety measures have to be developed to guarantee save transportation in urban areas. The objective of the MIMO-Air project is to develop a ground station for an air-taxi remote controller. Focus of the research is the development of HMI Concepts for Remote-Pilots in the ground station, that allow save monitoring and operation. A Situation Awareness Component will be developed, that optimises the Monitoring of the Remote Pilot. My duties are:

• Development of Air-Taxi Ground Station including Situation Awareness Component
• Improvement of the KONECT-Method

Today, it is generally assumed that the driver observes the environment and is thus immediately available as a fallback level, can react to requests for intervention, or takes over the vehicle guidance outside the operational area of automation. Previous studies on transfer scenarios, particularly in the context of conditional automation, show that considerable time reserves of at least 7 to 10 seconds must be reserved for the driver to safely take over the driving task. This cannot be guaranteed in more complex traffic scenarios by current and soon-to-be-available vehicle environment sensor technology, via so-called Car2X communication, and cloud services. Significantly lower time reserves must be expected here. Therefore, innovative strategies of driver-vehicle interaction are necessary, which bring the driver back to the driving task faster. The overall objective of the project is the research, development and implementation of a system for detecting the driver's situation awareness in order to optimise transfer scenarios in highly automated driving and to adapt the automation behaviour to the driver's state. An innovative concept for highly automated vehicles will be developed, which will enable even complex traffic situations in mixed urban traffic to be handled more safely and efficiently through the interaction of driver state detection, driver model and adaptive driver-vehicle interaction. My duties are:

• Development of Situation Awareness Comparison Component

The objective of the Cocomo project is to develop the distributed cooperative System "Cocomo", which allows to connect technicans of an enterprise or a group of cooperating enterprises, in order to support each other independent of place and time in execution of technical tasks, like maintenance or repair. My duties are:

• Development of knowledge based assistant system

The objective of the CSE project is to do research on the role of the Human in operation of complex systems in traffic (roads, maratime) as well as in health applications. My duties are:

• extension of CASCaS with workload prediction
• coupling of CASCaS workload prediction with fNIRS with the objective of improving fNIRS workload prediction

The objective of the HoliDes project is to develop processes, techniques and software tools that enable development and qualification of Adaptive Cooperative Human-Machine Systems (AdCoS) where many humans and many machines act together, cooperatively, in a highly adaptive way to guarantee fluent and cooperative task achievement. My duties are:

• work package lead (WP2)
• development of an task editor as UML Profile within MagicDraw
• development of an adaptive transition training syllabus generator for pilots

The objective of the D3CoS project is to develop methods, techniques and tools (MTTs) for system engineers and to embed them in industrial system development processes to sup-port affordable Development of highly innovative cooperative human-machine systems. My duties are:

• project managment (since March 2013)
• development of HLA simulation platform for virtual human in the loop simulation
• development of virtual human pilots
• tool development for modelling of dynamic distributed systems and simulation

The objective of the HUMAN project was to develop a methodology with techniques and prototypical tools based on a cognitive model of the crew behaviour, to support the prediction of human errors in ways that are usable and practical for human centred design of systems operating in complex cockpit environments. The methodology has been developed and tested in the frame of a flight management system (FMS) case study. The results of the project have contributed to ensuring that aviation safety remains at current high standards or even improves regardless of air transport growth. My duties where:

• development of simulation platform for virtual human in the loop simulation
• development of virtual human pilots
• workpackage managment

The objective of the DEMS project was to develop methods and tools for management of decentralised power generation and management, focussed on high availability of the power net. My duties where:

• formalisation of business processes
• application of formal verification on business processes and power nets