PUBLIC SUMMARY This document discusses the activity performed by the ODICIS consortium in disseminating information regarding the project. The means of dissemination range from website activity to published papers and presentations given at conferences.
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DOCUMENT CONTROL SHEET Project Manager Loïc Bécouarn THAV
Responsible Author Matthew Felice Pace UOM
Johanna Dominici THAV
Additional Authors
Subject / Title of Document: Intermediate Report on Dissemination Activities
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Document Version: 21
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Dissemination Level Public
Approval Dates
THAV L. Bécouarn
DASP J.Bader
ALA M.Fabbri
AZA M.Pregnolato
25-10-2010 26-10-2010 20-12-2010 30-11-2010
OPTI K. Sarayeddine
IMEC H. De Smet
DTU A. Alapetite
UOM D. Zammit-Mangion
28-11-2010 21-10-2010 21-10-2010 15-12-2010
TEIP
J. Ellinas
Dissemination Mgr.
J. Dominici
04-01-2011 25-11-2010
DISTRIBUTION LIST
Member Type No. Organization Name
Contact Name Distributed 1
Dubourg Bernard x Bécouarn Loïc x 1 THAV Dominici Johanna x
2 DASP Bader Joachim x 3 ALA Fabbri Marco x 4 AZA Pregnolato Marco x 5 OPTI Sarayeddine Khaled x 6 IMEC Cuypers Dieter x 7 DTU Alapetite Alexandre x 8 UOM Zammit-Mangion David x
Contractor
9 TEIP Ellinas John x Customer EU Lecomte Eric x
1 Please insert an X, when the Contact Name of an Organization receives this document.
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CHANGE HISTORY
Date Issue Changed Items/Chapters 2010-06-18 0.01 Initial Draft
2010-07-16 0.03 Section 2.2.4 and appendix B added Section 9 and appendix A populated Embedded documents replaced by Internet links
2010-07-21 0.04 Section 2.2 and conclusion populated – version ready for approval
2010-07-22 1.00 Comments taken into account
2010-10-15 1.01 Section 3.2 and Appendix B removed; figure 12 deleted, content of section 6.4 removed as the article is under review
2011-01-05 V.2 Approved
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TABLE OF CONTENT PUBLIC SUMMARY..................................... ........................................................................................... 1
DOCUMENT CONTROL SHEET............................................................................................................ 2
DISTRIBUTION LIST .................................. ............................................................................................ 2
CHANGE HISTORY ................................................................................................................................ 3
TABLE OF CONTENT ................................... ......................................................................................... 4
TABLES LIST ........................................ ................................................................................................. 6
1. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................. 8 1.1. Purpose and scope of ODICIS ..................................................................................................... 8 1.2. Purpose and scope of this document ........................................................................................... 8
7.1.1. DIEHL Aerospace – German Air and Space Congress ...................................................... 25 7.1.2. IMEC – 2009 SID International Symposium........................................................................ 26 7.1.3. TEIP - eRA .......................................................................................................................... 26 7.1.4. Darmstadt University ........................................................................................................... 26
7.2. Public dissemination event ......................................................................................................... 27 7.3. Interfacing................................................................................................................................... 28
APPENDIX A ACRONYMS.............................................................................................................. 33
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FIGURES LIST Figure 1: ODICIS logo ............................................................................................................................. 8
Figure 2: Artistic view of ODICIS display................................................................................................. 9
Figure 3: ODICIS website home page................................................................................................... 10
Figure 15: leaflet – verso ....................................................................................................................... 19
Figure 16: Air & Cosmos article............................................................................................................. 22
Figure 17: Slide about ODICIS at the German Air and Space Congress ............................................. 25
TABLES LIST Table 1: Inventory of Internet pages mentioning ODICIS project.......................................................... 30 Table 2: EEAG members....................................................................................................................... 30 Table 3: EEAG meetings schedule ....................................................................................................... 31 Table 4: overview of all the planned dissemination activities................................................................ 32
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REFERENCED DOCUMENTS Ref. Code Description
[1] TA ODICIS Technical Annex or Annex I “Description of Work”
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Purpose and scope of ODICIS The ODICIS project aims at developing a single display cockpit associated with adequate means of interaction.
This addresses three current major aeronautics needs: the system architecture flexibility, the useful surface optimisation and the information continuity. Therefore the project will improve the operational safety and efficiency while reducing the aircraft development cost.
The first objective is to prove the technical feasibility of an avionics large seamless display, which can possibly be curved. This involves optical but also graphic generation challenges. The design of the display must take into account as much as possible user wishes and aircraft possibilities.
Once the display is available, the proper means of interaction must be defined and implemented. At this point, a complete technological mock-up of a single display cockpit will be available.
Meanwhile, the concepts of use, that stimulated the idea of a single display cockpit, will be reviewed, deepened and tested on the mock-up. Human factors evaluations will seek to ascertain the safety and efficiency gains produced by this novel cockpit concept based on use of a single display.
1.2. Purpose and scope of this document The aim of this document is that of highlighting and discussing the efforts made to increase public and industry awareness on the project. Several methods were used to get this information through, each of which will be discussed and any direct results of such dissemination stated.
2. ODICIS IMAGE
The images associated to the ODICIS project identify it and convey its innovative character. That is why a particular attention has been given to the creation of the logo and the artistic view representing One Display for Cockpit Interactive Solution (ODICIS).
2.1. Logo It is used in the heading of the documents produced during the project and for communication activities (leaflet, folders, website, etc.).
Figure 1: ODICIS logo
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2.2. Artistic view The artistic view is used in every presentation (.ppt, etc.) on the introduction slide. It is also used in every dissemination activity. It is now well associated to ODICIS project in people minds.
It has even been requested by journalists and scientists to illustrate their articles or presentations involving ODICIS (see sections 6.2, 7.1.1, 7.1.4).
Figure 2: Artistic view of ODICIS display
3. WEBSITE
3.1. Website Overview The main source of information for the project is the website, available at www.odicis.org (see Figure 3). It provides a place of reference for people interested in the project as well as a repository for documents shared between the partners involved.
The website structure is very simple to use, with a menu on the left used for navigation. The different pages that can be accessed include the project description page, which is shown in Figure 4 provides an overview of the whole project. Another page, shown in Figure 5, introduces the partners of the project, while the news page, in Figure 6, and events page, in Figure 7, are meant to keep the users up to date with what is going on with the project. Publicly available documents are available on the documents page, as shown in Figure 8, which also allows logged in users to access other documents available only to partners. Logged in users also have access to specific work package documents as shown in Figure 11 and to other published documents (see Erreur ! Source du renvoi introuvable. ). Finally, in the contact us area all the partners contact details are listed (see Figure 12).
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3.1.1. Home page
Figure 3: ODICIS website home page
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3.1.2. Project Description page
Figure 4: ODICIS project description page
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3.1.3. Partners page
Figure 5: Partners page
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3.1.4. News page
Figure 6: News page
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3.1.5. Events page
Figure 7: Events page
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3.1.6. Documents page
Figure 8: Documents page available to the general p ublic
3.1.7. Partners Area page
Figure 9: Partners Area Login page
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Figure 10: Partners area “home” page
Figure 11: example of documents available in the pa rtners’ area
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3.1.8. Contact Us page
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Figure 12: Contact Us page
4. LEAFLET
The leaflet is an overview of the project printed on a single A4 sheet of paper. It presents the context, objectives and consortium of ODICIS.
It is intended to be distributed during workshops or promotion activities. The final number of hard copies will depend on the events at which it will be available.
The final version was approved by all the partners in July 2009 and is available for download on the ODICIS web site since then.
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Figure 14: leaflet – verso
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5. OVERVIEW PRESENTATION
An overview presentation has been made for dissemination purpose. This presentation is available on ODICIS website and can be sent to anyone interested in the project.
6.1. In Aviation Week http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/AVRadar112309.xml&headline=Touchscreens,%20Broadband%20Coming%20To%20Flight%20Decks&channel=awst
Title: Touchscreens, Broadband Coming To Flight Decks
By: Graham Warwick
Publication date: 20th November 2009
Language: English
For the inspiration behind the next generation of avionics, just look around you; it is to be found in the consumer electronics we use every day. The touchscreen interactivity and broadband connectivity of today’s smart phones and laptops is poised to enter the flight deck.
The signs are already here. Garmin International has introduced touchscreens with its G3000 integrated flight deck, selected for the HondaJet and PiperJet light business jets. In addition to wide-screen liquid crystal displays, the G3000 has a pair of vehicle management system controllers with touch-sensitive screens and desktop-like menu icons.
Garmin says the user interface draws on its experience designing automotive consumer products, and eliminates buttons, switches and most knobs. Instead, the infrared touchscreen technology and menu icons allow for “intuitive” control of flight, radio and audio management systems, synoptic displays and other functions.
The next step is multi-touch technology, familiar to any iPhone user and becoming available on laptop computers. This allows the user to manipulate the display image using two or more fingers to move, rotate, magnify or shrink objects. Avionics applications of multi-touch control are moving out of the laboratory and into product development.
In May, European industry and academia kicked off a 30-month research project to develop a commercial-aircraft cockpit where the entire instrument panel, including center console, is a single touchscreen display. Led by Thales Avionics and funded by the European Union under its 7th Framework research program, the Odicis (One Display for a Cockpit Interactive Solution) project involves nine partners from seven countries.
Odicis aims to take a single large seamless cockpit display to a technology readiness level of 3-4, requiring laboratory validation that the architecture and performance meet safety-critical avionics requirements. The concept is targeted initially at the smaller cockpits of business and regional jets, but the technology must be adequate for use in larger aircraft.
A single display with no lost space between screens is expected to make it easier to implement a task-oriented cockpit with better partitioning of workload between the flying and non-flying pilots. The display would be more easily reconfigured for different phases of flight. Lower development and maintenance costs are other potential benefits.
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A single display surface conforming to the complex contours of a cockpit would be created by tiling the images produced by multiple rear-projection systems. The Odicis team envisages using either digital micro-mirror device (DMD) or liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) projectors with high-intensity light sources such as lasers or LEDs.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter now under development was originally to have a single cockpit display using dual-redundant DMD projectors, but the technology proved not to be ready for prime time and instead the aircraft is being fitted with side-by-side touchscreen LCDs that are operated as if they were a single display surface.
The Odicis display will have multi-touch capability allowing both pilot and co-pilot to simultaneously manipulate virtual controls and displays, such as terrain maps and keyboards. The team will also look at haptic technology to provide tactile feedback. This could involve vibrating the screen where the pilot touches it to differentiate between the functions of virtual controls by providing different tactile sensations.
Avionics manufacturers have come to rely on the commercial sector for display technology because of the expense of developing and supporting aircraft-unique solutions. And, just as the liquid crystal display has displaced the cathode-ray tube in televisions, so it has in the cockpit, but the commercial sector is not stopping there.
There are several new technologies vying for dominance, but one of the first to enter the consumer market is the organic light-emitting diode (OLED). Whereas LCDs require a backlight, and DMD and LCoS projectors require a light source, OLEDs are emissive displays, generating and emitting light pixel by pixel. Compared with LCDs, they have greater colour range and contrast, a wider viewing angle and faster response.
As LCDs did before them, OLEDs are starting small. They are being used in smart phones, gaming keyboards and automotive dashboards, and the first laptop displays are on the way, which brings them into the size range needed for avionics applications. One lingering disadvantage is the life of these organic displays, currently just a few years. While adequate for the fast-moving consumer market, aircraft manufacturers and operators expect displays to last for decades. But longer-lived OLEDs are under development.
One potential early cockpit application of OLEDs is in flexible displays to replace the kneepad printed maps and checklists used by military pilots. Universal Display is working with LG Technology and L-3 Communications under U.S. Army and Air Force small-business research contracts to apply its active-matrix OLED technology to prototype flexible displays built on metal foil substrates.
The Air Force wants a non-glass, ejection-safe flexible and rollable display with full-colour, full-motion video capability that can be stored during flight by wrapping it around a cylinder providing the power supply and wireless communications. Under its Phase 2 contract received in June, the team is delivering four breadboard prototypes of a 6-in. diagonal display. The Army, meanwhile, is funding work on a wrist-mounted display.
Another commercial technology expected to impact the cockpit is the fourth-generation, or 4G, wireless broadband cellular service to be rolled out across the U.S., in Europe and elsewhere beginning in 2010. While broadband air-ground service is available in the U.S., it uses special terrestrial networks installed and operated by niche providers.
AirCell says its current broadband service, which uses 3G code-division multiple access technology, can deliver a data rate of 3.1 Mbps. to aircraft over the U.S., but the company is on a path to upgrade its network to 4G orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing technology by 2011, which will provide speeds in excess of 100 Mbps. Wi-Sky plans to roll out a rival service in 2010 providing 100 Mbps. using modified 4G technology.
However, the hope of avionics manufacturers is that aviation will be able to use, without modification, the 4G cellular networks to be deployed by the major wireless providers using the 700-MHz. spectrum vacated by analog television, increasing the availability and reducing the cost of inflight broadband. One reason is that 4G networks will be able to accommodate airborne users, which they cannot with today’s technology. This could open up the opportunities for operational benefits from services such as real-time downlinking of flight data and uplinking of software upgrades.
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6.2. In Air & Cosmos
Title: Vers un cockpit à écran unique (Towards a single screen cockpit)
By: Magali Rebeaud
Publication date: 23rd April 2010
Language: French
Figure 15: Air & Cosmos article
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6.3. In Aviation International News http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/thales-studies-one-display-flight-deck-24929/
Title: Thales studies one-display flight deck
By: Thierry Dubois
Publication date: 1st June 2010
Language: English
Thales is leading a research project toward what might be the ultimate in avionics displays–a single-display flight deck. Envisioned are curved surfaces, multi-touch screens and enhanced configuration flexibility. The French avionics specialist and its research partners want to create a more intuitive, pilot-centered man-machine interface. The project–known as Odicis (for “one display for a cockpit interactive solution”)–is expected to produce a proof-of-concept cockpit in about a year. The research engineers want to keep some interfaces–such as trackball cursor-control devices– that are found in recent-production cockpits. “We will complement them with multi-touch zones,” project coordinator Loïc Bécouarn told AIN. Making touchscreens that can be operated effectively in turbulence requires a lot of testing, he acknowledged. For example, the size of the soft buttons and the ergonomics could be modified so as to retain controllability of the display in turbulence. Above all, Bécouarn and his team will endeavor to create interfaces in Odicis from a clean sheet of paper. “We have to seek out what is operable, intuitive and easy to use,” he said. He believes that a single display provides more scope for the company to focus on and provide for the pilot’s needs.
Thales has high expectations that by providing a “more natural” way of showing information, its single-display cockpit will improve safety. First, the full surface area of the display will be used, which should benefit critical phases such as approach. Odicis is a “task-oriented” cockpit that will split the workload more effectively between the pilot flying and the pilot not flying.
Because it will be completely reconfigurable for each phase of flight, the display “opens a field of possibilities to optimize how to dispatch functions,” said Bécouarn. The displayed information could also vary depending on what the flight crew deems most practical. Guillaume Lapeyronnie, head of advanced cockpit studies, said pilots are interested in flexibility but want it to be “moderated.” They want to keep critical information in their primary field of vision, he added.
Thales views the project as a timely way to address future airspace plans, such as the U.S. NextGen and Europe’s Sesar, which will likely call for 4-D trajectories, airport navigation systems, synthetic vision and new mission management modes. The integration of these new applications on current cockpit displays would saturate the crew with information, and Thales’ research engineers contend that their large, highly flexible information display would present the required information in an easy-to-digest manner.
“The most mature technology for such a single-display cockpit is rear projection,” Bécouarn noted. Thales considered OLEDs but concluded that they will not be mature enough for aviation until 2020. Currently, the main issue with OLEDs is image persistence after a few hundred hours of use. LCDs could be suitable if display mating improves.
Rear projection uses several projection units, depending on the size of the cockpit. While a business jet would use “a few,” a widebody airliner could use “up to a dozen.” The number of units also provides redundancy.
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A single-display unit gives the airframer flexibility in terms of design. The “free format” concept means that the aircraft designer does not have to fit existing displays into a cockpit, Bécouarn emphasized. Rather, the display fits the cockpit exactly. In terms of power consumption, Thales’ goal is not to exceed the appetites of new-generation LCD-based avionics suites.
Lapeyronnie emphasized that Odicis is about conceptual study and technical feasibility. “What value can it bring? Is there any show stopper? That’s what we want to understand,” he said. The demonstrator, scheduled to be ready for tests in the middle of next year, will provide a technology readiness level (TRL) of between 3 and 4. This means “laboratory validation” of basic performance and compliance with safety requirements.
The research project started in May last year and will run for two-and-a-half years at a cost of E5.61 million ($8.6 million) under the European Commission’s seventh framework program.
6.4. Press 4 transport http://www.press4transport.eu
Press release in process – Will be presented to the consortium for approval at the next the Steering Committee
Title: Avionics: optimal cockpit display design to improve safety
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Title: Interactive Airplane Cockpits
ODICIS One Display is a Paperless, Tech-Savvy Vision of the Future
Publication date: 19th July 2010
Language: English
The ODICIS One Display for the Cockpit Interactive Solution project is a single-display cockpit that addresses major aeronautics needs. The ODICIS cockpit features an efficient architecture system, flexibility, surface efficiency and information continuity. It’s equipped with an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) to make the cockpit completely paperless.
The scalable single large cockpit display presented by ODICIS will meet the major challenges faced by the current aeronautic community. See more images of this stellar design above.
ODICIS is a 7th framework project aimed at developing a single display cockpit by employing state of the art technologies. The ODICIS project has officially started on the 1st of May 2009 and is planned to last 30 months. (odicis.org)
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7.1. Conferences The presentation of progress and results at conferences and congresses constitutes a fundamental aspect of public dissemination.
7.1.1. DIEHL Aerospace – German Air and Space Congr ess
8th – 10th September 2009, Aachen, Germany
Hochleistungsgrafiksysteme für moderne Cockpit-Konzepte
High-performance graphical systems for advanced cockpit concepts
Boris Langer
Project Manager Research & Technology
Center of Excellence for Symbol Generation
Figure 16: Slide about ODICIS at the German Air and Space Congress
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7.1.2. IMEC – 2009 SID International Symposium 2nd – 5th June 2009, San Antonio, Texas, USA
LCOS Devices for Professional Projection Displays
André Van Calster, Dieter Cuypers, Herbert De Smet
Center for Microsystems Technology (CMST)
Ghent University – IMEC
Abstract
This paper reviews the development of LCOS devices towards high performance light valves for high resolution image sources. A number of backplane design and cell assembly issues related to high performance imager devices will be discussed. The use of QXGA LCOS imagers in professional displays will be illustrated.
About ODICIS
In the frame of a new European R&D program ODICIS, headed by Thales Avionics, a single cockpit display, replacing all the present cockpit displays, will be investigated. One of the technology candidates is a solution based on QXGA LCOS projection units. Participating partners are Alitalia, Alenia, Optinvent, DTU, TEIP, Diehl, IMEC, UOM and Thales Avionics.
The Conference for International Synergy in Energy, Environment, Tourism and contribution of Information Technology in Science, Economy, Society and Education
“One Display for a Cockpit Interactive Solution ”, A. Xalas, N. Sgouros, P. Kouros, J. Ellinas
http://era.teipir.gr/era4/fpap/c13.doc
7.1.4. Darmstadt University THAV was contacted, in January 2010, by Christian Drege who asked for authorisation of use of the picture on ODICIS website.
Christian Drege is engaged in one display cockpit research (not the hardware side) at Darmstadt University.In March 2010 he wrote a publication about one-display cockpits to show the current state of the art and the current state of research and give a presentation about this at a congress.
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7.2. Public dissemination event http://www.alicia-project.eu/CMS/events/presentation-event.html https://www.odicis.org/events/event_view.php?EventID=10
New projects developing avionic systems and flight deck operations, and their contribution to Future Air Traffic Management
Brussels, 22nd June 2010
The event is organized by ALICIA, an IP project co-funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, with the support of three other FP7 Projects: DAPHNE, ODICIS and SCARLETT.
General description
We have pleasure in announcing a Public Presentation Event: New projects developing avionic systems and flight deck operations, and their contribution to Future Air Traffic Management.
The event will introduce four research and development projects in the domain of avionic systems and flight deck operations, providing an indication of their contributions to advancing the state of the art and analysing their part in the current EC and SESAR work programmes.
The event will be opened by Michael Hoffmann, EqIMG co-chair.
The final part of the meeting will provide European Commission and SESAR perspectives on the future results expected in the areas of avionics, flight deck architecture, all condition operations, air-ground telecommunications and air traffic management.
The event is organized by ALICIA, with the participation of FP7 projects DAPHNE, ODICIS and SCARLETT.
All projects are co-funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
With the kind support of:
Below is a link to the ODICIS presentation made at this event.
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7.3. Interfacing Interfacing with other related European programmes – in particular EC-funded projects – by all consortium partners to support the maximal exploitation of the results of ODICIS. Most of this interfacing will take place during the EEAG meetings by inviting members who also take part in other European Projects.
Some interfacing has also been made by organising a joint public dissemination event with three other FP7 Projects: ALICIA, DAPHNE and SCARLETT.
8. MENTIONS
Hereafter is a list of Internet pages where there are references to the ODICIS project. They have been found by searching “ODICIS” in the Google browser.
Table 1: Inventory of Internet pages mentioning ODI CIS project
9. EXTERNAL EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP
An EEAG is a very good tool for dissemination: as successfully implemented in the FLYSAFE project, the EEAG workshops enable interest groups, potential users and specialist groups to be informed about the goals, work progress and results of the project. The meetings also contribute to cross-pollination of ideas and to get valuable inputs or steering from outside the consortium.
The expected members of the Advisory Group are European airliners, aircraft manufacturers, official organisations and aviation safety experts. To maximise the audience, the ODICIS consortium reimburse the expenses (travel, meal, accommodation) of the external parties, as they have no budget for those activities. This is important to get the maximum benefit of those meetings because we expect external experts to support us for free.
Dassault Aviation Lopez Salvador Human Factor & HMI Engineer
AgustaWestland Harris Neil ALICIA project manager
Table 2: EEAG members
Workshops will be organised by UOM and held three times during the project lifetime as described in the table below:
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Month Venue Topic
6 (12/10/2009)
Paris, Charles de Gaulle Airport
The initial timeframe for this meeting was month 4 but it has been postponed due to members’ unavailability.
The group reviewed the requirements issued in WP1 to design a single display cockpit. The related deliverables were sent to the experts before the meeting while the questions from all the partners were sent before week 37 (2nd week of September). At such an early period in the project, the focus was on receiving practical inputs from member's daily experience and on identifying incompatibilities and deficiencies regarding the whole project.
Since the meeting took place in France, THAV managed organisational details (meeting room reservation, etc.). UOM and THAV managed the content of the EEAG meetings (documents exchanges with the members, collection of the questions from ODICIS partners, preparation of the presentations to EEAG members, etc.)
15 (29/07/2010)
Malta The second meeting will be the opportunity to review the concept of use and operational impacts of the single display cockpit. During this design phase, the objective is to get the feedback of the experts on interim results.
26 (06/2011)
Paris Air Show, Le Bourget
During the final meeting, the group will review the single display cockpit validation activities and the exploitation roadmap. At that final stage, discussions will focus on the best way to go towards marketable and certifiable product.
Table 3: EEAG meetings schedule
These workshops will last one day or two half-days and be organised in two parts:
In the first part, the ODICIS consortium will present the ODICIS state on the workshop topic
In the second part, the External Expert Advisory Group will be asked for their feedback and suggestions
The outcomes of such workshops are the milestones previously described. The conclusions allow iterating within the impacted WP. For instance, the workshop about the concept of use and operational impacts will provide inputs for iteration in WP4.
Apart from such direct exploitations, the Exploitation roadmap will also strongly gain from all these workshops, while staying in line with the aeronautics requirements. The workshops will thus be a decisive mean to provide a fully exploitable roadmap at the end of the project.
10. OVERVIEW
Dates Type Type of audience
Countries addressed
Size of Audience
Partner responsible /
involved
02/06/2009
Presentation on LCOS at 2009 SID International Symposium: “LCOS devices for professional Projection Displays”
15/08/2009 ODICIS leaflet available on ODICIS website
www International N/A THAV
07/09/2009 ODICIS project overview presentation available on ODICIS website
www International N/A THAV
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Dates Type Type of audience
Countries addressed
Size of Audience
Partner responsible /
involved
08/09/2009 Presentation given at the German Air and Space Congress
Aviation Experts
German 30 DASP
26/09/2009 Presentation given at the International Scientific Conference: eRA-4 The SynEnergy Forum
Scientific Experts
International 25 TEIP
12/10/2009 First EEAG meeting at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
Aviation Experts
European 6 UOM
20/11/2009 Article published on Aviation Week website
Aviation industry International N/A -
19/04/2010 ODICIS project registered on press4transport website
Transport industry
European N/A THAV
23/04/2010 Article published in Air & Cosmos magazine n°2215
Aviation industry
France N/A THAV
01/06/2010 Article published on Aviation International News website
Aviation industry
International N/A THAV
22/06/2010 Public dissemination event in Brussels Aviation Experts
European 30 THAV
07/2010 Article should be published in Focus Magazin
Non-specialised German N/A THAV
29/07/2010 Second EEAG meeting in Malta Aviation Experts
European 6 UOM
06/2011 Third EEAG meeting, Paris Air Show Aviation Experts
European 6 UOM
Table 4: overview of all the planned dissemination activities
11. CONCLUSION
The aim of this document was to provide information about the dissemination activity achieved by the partners. The information has been shown to have been disseminated in various forms, ranging from the development of a website to conference papers and articles.
All activity is important to generate awareness on the project, and the work performed thus far can be deemed to have reached this aim.
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APPENDIX A ACRONYMS
ALA Alenia Aeronautica
AZA Alitalia
DASP Diehl Aerospace
DTU Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
EC European Commission
EEAG External Experts Advisory Group
EU European Union
HMI Human Machine Interface
IMEC Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum
LCOS Liquid Crystal On Silicon
N/A Not Applicable
ODICIS One Display for a Cockpit Interactive Solution
OPTI Optinvent
THAV Thales Avionics
UOM University Of Malta
TEIP Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus
