2024 International Workshop on ATM/CNS
November 19 and 20, 2024

The 2024 International Workshop on ATM/CNS (IWAC2024) was successfully held from November 19 to 20, 2024, in collaboration with the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences (JSASS). The event attracted about 160 participants from 12 countries around the world. It featured 49 presentations across keynote, invited, and technical sessions. An exhibition was also held alongside the workshop. Eight papers, recognized for their outstanding quality, were nominated for publication in the Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, a journal published by JSASS.

We sincerely appreciate your valuable contributions, including high-quality presentations, papers, and insightful discussions throughout the workshop. We look forward to seeing you again at our next event.

Date: Nov. 19~20, 2024
Venue: Nakano Central Park Conference (Tokyo)

Selected Papers of IWAC2024

Eight high-quality papers were selected and nominated for the Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences published by JSASS.

Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award
Title DFMC GBAS Performance Evaluation by Flight Experiment
Authors *Susumu Saito1, Takayuki Yoshihara1
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)

Best Student Paper Award

Best Student Paper Award
Title Assessment of Ionospheric modelling for Multi-Constellation GNSS based on the time-step method and a CORS Network
Authors *Efren Martin Alban Cuestas1, Pornchai Supnithi1, Susumu Saito2, Jirapoom Budtho1
1 King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (Thailand), 2 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)

Program and Papers

Conference program (final) (PDF 6.07MB)

Day 1 (Tuesday, November 19), Hall

Opening Remarks
Sonosuke Fukushima, Chair of IWAC2024 Organizing Committee, Director General, ENRI
Honorary Guest Remarks
Toshiyuki Onuma, Senior Deputy Director-General, JCAB

Keynotes

Chair: Mark Brown (ENRI), Takayuki Yoshihara (ENRI)

K-1 Civil aviation and aviation research priorities post AN Conf 14
Pascal Luciani
Deputy Director of Air Navigation Bureau, ICAO
K-2 Contribution of CARATS and Haneda Airport Aircraft Collision Prevention Measures
Norihiro Ishizaki
Director-General, Air Navigation Services Department, JCAB
K-3 The Need for Continuous Modernization
Jessica Sypniewski
Deputy Assistant Administrator for NextGen, FAA Headquarters
K-4 Delivering the Digital European Sky
David Batchelor
Chief External Affairs and Communication, SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking

Invited Speeches

Chair: Mark Brown (ENRI), Takayuki Yoshihara (ENRI)

I-1 Video Letter from EUROCAE
Anna von Groote
Director General, EUROCAE
I-2 Validation Efforts in Aviation Standards Development
Rebecca Morrison
Senior Director, Standards and Technologies, RTCA, Inc.
I-3 NASA Future Airspace and Safety Transformation For the Next Century
Akbar Sultan
Director, Airspace Operations and Safety Program, Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters

Day 1 (Tuesday, November 19), Room 1

Technical Session 1 : Advanced Air Traffic Operations and Management 1

Chair: Joseph Post (University of South Florida), Xiaodong Lu (ENRI)

T1-1-A Air traffic classification using convolutional neural networks
*Adrien Marque1, Danie1 Delahaye2, Pierre Maréchal3, Isabelle Berry1
1 Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo UMR5549) (France), 2 Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC) (France), 3 Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (France)
T1-2-I CADENA’s Contingency Management Approach (PDF 134KB)
*Midori Tanino1
1 Federal Aviation Administration (United States of America)
T1-3-I A Co-simulation Environment for ATM/UTM Demonstrations (PDF 243KB)
*Yan Xu1,2, Junjie Zhao1, Tingyu Gong1, Christantus Nnamani1, Antonios Tsourdos1
1 Cranfield University (UK), 2 Beihang University (China)
T1-4-I Air Traffic Flow Management and Collaborative Decision-Making in the United States of America (PDF 1.02MB)
*Almira Ramadani1
1 FAA (United States of America)

Day 1 (Tuesday, November 19), Room 2

Technical Session 2 : Prediction and Resilience

Chair: Mark Hansen (University of California, Berkley), Takayuki Yoshihara (ENRI)

T2-1-A Classification prediction of air traffic flow based on CNN-GRU model driven by multi-source data
*Yang Zeng1, Minghua Hu1, Ligang Yuan1, Haiyan Chen2, Ranran Shang1, Huipeng Liu1
1 College of Civil Aviation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China), 2 College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China)
T2-2-A Strategic Path Change Maneuvers for Weather Obstacle Avoidance in Aviation
*Jean-Claude Lebègue1, Andréas Guitart2, Daniel Delahaye3, Jacco Hoekstra4
1 Sopra Steria (France), 2 Enac (France), 3 Enac (France), 4 TU Delft (Netherlands)
T2-3-A RecovAir: Model-Driven Airline Scheduling Tool for Disruption Recovery
Michael Peng1, *Max Zhaoyu Li1
1 University of Michigan (United States of America)

Day 1 (Tuesday, November 19), Room 3

Technical Session 3 : Surveillance Systems

Chair: Shusaku Egami (AIST), Naruto Yonemoto (ENRI)

T3-1-A Test Equipment for TDOA-based ADS-B Position Verification
*Junichi Naganawa1, Yasuyuki Kakubari1, Tadashi Koga1
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)
T3-2-A An Evaluation Process of ADS-B Message and Statistical Evaluation
*Keisuke Matsunaga1, Junichi Honda1
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)
T3-3-A A Study on a Multistatic Radar System with Software Defined Radio
*Nikolai Mareev1, Ola Bidhan1, Konstantin Schmidt1, Robert Geise1, Michael Einhaus1
1 Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig (Germany)
T3-4-I RCS measurement of small drones for future airport surveillance radar (PDF 197KB)
*Gaku Sato1, Naruto Yonemoto1, Junichi Honda1, Kazuyuki Morioka1
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)

Day 2 (Wednesday, November 20), Hall A

Technical Session 4 : Advanced Air Traffic Operations and Management 2

Chair: Midori Tanino (FAA), Daichi Toratani (ENRI)

T4-1-A High-fidelity aircraft trajectory generation using flow-based generative model
*Haruki Matsuda1,2, Naoya Takeishi2, Takehisa Yairi2
1 Aviation Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (Japan), 2 Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
T4-2-A Voronoi diagrams and Simulated Annealing for airspace block optimization
*Andréas Guitart1, Julien Lavandier1, Daniel Delahaye1
1 Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (France)
T4-3-A Terminal area flight trajectory clustering based on deep autoencoding gaussian mixture model
*Huipeng Liu1,2, Minghua Hu1,2, Yi Zhou1,2, Ranran Shang1,2, Yumeng Ren1,2, Yang Zeng1,2, Lei Yang1,2
1 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China), 2 State Key Laboratory of Air Traffic Management System (China)

Technical Session 7 : Advanced Air Traffic Operations and Management 3

Chair: Akinori Harada (Kyushu University), Satoru Inoue (ENRI)

T7-1-A Early Design Validation Process for Flight Deck Display Format
*Yoichi Yamai1, Makoto Itoh2, Marie-Pierre Pacaux-Lemoine3
1 Degree Program on Risk and Resilience Engineering, Tsukuba University (Japan), 2 Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, Tsukuba University (Japan), 3 Polytechnique Hauts-de-France University (France)
T7-2-A Enhancing Low Altitude Integrated Operations with Multi-layer Operation Volume Deviation Alerts
*Adriana Andreeva-Mori1
1 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (Japan)
T7-3-A Investigating Moving Sectors and Complexity Metrics in Japanese Airspace
Simon Bruno Göppel1, Michael Schultz1, Koji Tominaga2, *Eri Itoh2
1 University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany), 2 The University of Tokyo (Japan)

Organized Session 1 : Trajectory Based Operations

Chair: Xiaodong Lu (ENRI), Navinda Kithmal Wickramasinghe (ENRI)

O1-1-A SWIM-based Collaborative Information Exchange to Ensure Consistency of Air-Ground 4D Trajectory for Connected Aircraft
*Xiaodong Lu1, Kazuyuki Morioka1, Naoki Kanada1, Naruto Yonemoto1, Akiko Kohmura1
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)
O1-2-I Exploration of Connected Aircraft Trajectory Information (CATI) (PDF 115KB)
*Richard Jehlen1, Diana Liang2, Nabil Sandhu3
1 LS Technologies, LLC (United States of America), 2 FAA (United States of America), 3 FAA (United States of America)
O1-3-I EFB Innovations from Mission Support to Trajectory Based Operations (PDF 168KB)
*Sherry Yang1
1 The Boeing Company (United States of America)
O1-4-I A Concept for Air Traffic Management Performance Balancing in Trajectory-Based Operations with Collaborative Decision Making (PDF 182KB)
*Mark Brown1, Akinori Murata1, Hiroko Hirabayashi1, Takashi Imuta1
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)

Day 2 (Wednesday, November 20), Hall B

Technical Session 5 : Human Factors

Chair: Ryota Mori (Kobe University), Kazuyuki Morioka (ENRI)

T5-1-A Evaluating Air Traffic Complexity via Human-In-The-Loop Simulation Experiments: Novel Metrics for Air Traffic Controllers
*Daiki Iwata1, Katsuhiro Sekine2, Philippe Bouchaudon3, Eri Itoh1,4
1 The University of Tokyo (Japan), 2 Tokyo University of Science (Japan), 3 EUROCONTROL (France), 4 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)
T5-2-A Team Task Modeling on En-route Air Traffic Controllers with Communicative NGOMSL
*Sungju Maeng1, Haruhi Nishida1, Hiroko Hirabayashi2, Takashi Imuta2, Makoto Itoh3
1 Degree Program in Risk and Resilience Engineering, University of Tsukuba (Japan), 2 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan), 3 Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Tsukuba (Japan)
T5-3-I A Modeling of the Relationship between Severe Weather and Controller Workload with Gaussian Process Regression (PDF 316KB)
*Atsushi Senoguchi1, Hiroko Hirabayashi1
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)

Technical Session 8 : Airport Operations

Chair: Daniel Delahaye (Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC)), Yoichi Nakamura (ENRI)

T8-1-A Go-Around Prediction Modelling: A Comparison of Two Airports
*Mark Hansen1, Ke Liu1, Kaijing Ding1, Lu Dai1, Abigail Malakun1, John Schade2, Kennis Chan2
1 UC Berkeley (United States of America), 2 ATAC Corportation (United States of America)
T8-2-A Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Multi-Airport Slot Re-Allocation Under Reduced Capacity Scenarios
*Anh Nguyen-Duy1, Duc-Thinh Pham1
1 Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
T8-3-A Effective Management of Airport Security Queues with Passenger Reassignment
Shangqing Cao1, Aparimit Kasliwal1, Masoud Reihanifar1,2, Francesc Robusté2, *Mark Hansen1
1 University of California, Berkeley (United States of America), 2 Technical University of Catalonia BarcelonaTech (UPC) (Spain)

Organized Session 2 : Operational Safety for UAS and UAM

Chair: Daisuke Karikawa (Tohoku University), Daichi Toratani (ENRI)

O2-1-I NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility Research
*Cheryl Quinn1
1 NASA (United States of America)
O2-2-I Modeling Ground and Air Risk of Drone Operation under NEDO ReAMO Projects (PDF 689KB)
*Hiroko Nakamura1, Shinji Nakadai2
1 The University of Tokyo (Japan), 2 Intent Exchange Inc. (Japan)
O2-3-I Collision Risk Model for Unmanned Aerial Systems (PDF 272KB)
Junichi Naganawa1, *Ryota Mori2
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan), 2 Kobe University (Japan)
O2-4-I Enhancing Safety in UAM Corridors: A Self-Separation Scheme Utilizing Estimated Arrival Times at Constraint Waypoints (PDF 1.36MB)
*Sasinee Pruekprasert1, Shinji Nakadai2
1 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), 2 Intent Exchange, Inc. (Japan)
O2-5-I Ground Risk Assessment for Safety Operation of UAS (PDF 134KB)
*Shinji Nakadai1, Artur Goncalves2, Bastien Rigault2, Helmut Prendinger2
1 Intent Exchange, Inc. (Japan), 2 National Institute of Informatics (Japan)

Day 2 (Wednesday, November 20), Hall C

Technical Session 6 : Communication and Navigation Systems 1

Chair: Keisuke Hosokawa (The University of Electro-Communications), Takayuki Yoshihara (ENRI)

T6-1-A Assessment of Ionospheric modelling for Multi-Constellation GNSS based on the time-step method and a CORS Network
*Efren Martin Alban Cuestas1, Pornchai Supnithi1, Susumu Saito2, Jirapoom Budtho1
1 King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (Thailand), 2 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)
T6-2-A DFMC GBAS Performance Evaluation by Flight Experiment
*Susumu Saito1, Takayuki Yoshihara1
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)
T6-3-I Utilizing DFMC SBAS broadcasted from QZSS in Polar Region (PDF 266KB)
*Toru Takahashi1, Takanori Nishiyama2,3, Mitsunori Kitamura1, Taishi Hashimoto2,3, Susumu Saito1, Takeyasu Sakai1,4
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan), 2 National Institute of Polar Research (Japan), 3 School of Multidisciplinary Sciences Department of Polar Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (Japan), 4 Technology and Logistics, Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (Japan)

Technical Session 9 : Communication and Navigation Systems 2

Chair: Dirk Kuegler (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Naruto Yonemoto (ENRI)

T9-1-A Preliminary EMC test between LDACS and XPDR for small aircraft
*Kazuyuki Morioka1, Akiko Kohmura1, Naruto Yonemoto1, Junichi Naganawa1, Junichi Honda1, Takuya Otsuyama1, Tadashi Koga1
1 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)
T9-2-I Scribe NLP : Unleashing the potential of ATC Voice Communication (PDF 182KB)
*Fabien Betouret Candau1, Jeremi Carol1, Sylvain Martin1, Thomas Roques1
1 DGAC / DSNA / DTI (France)
T9-3-A In-Situ Nearfield Flight Inspection of a Glide-Slope System with a UAV
*Robert Geise1, Bjoern Neubauer2, Altan Akar2, Alexander Weiss2, Torsten Fritzel3, Ruediger Strauss3
1 University of Applied Science HTWK Leipzig (Germany), 2 University of Braunschweig, Institute for EMC (Germany), 3 AeroXess GmbH (Germany)

Organized Session 3 : Space Weather

Chair: Noboru Takeichi (Tokyo Metropolitan University), Susumu Saito (ENRI)

O3-1-I A Discussion of the Threshold for Issuing Space Weather Advisories at ICAO (PDF 158KB)
*Mamoru Ishii1,2, Michi Nishioka1, Takuya Tsugawa1
1 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan), 2 Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University (Japan)
O3-2-I Status of ICAO Space Weather Advisory Issuances, Including Large-Scale Space Weather Events in May 2024 (PDF 203KB)
*Chihiro Tao1, Takuya Tsugawa1, Mamoru Ishii1,2, Susumu Saito3
1 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) (Japan), 2 Nagoya Univ. (Japan), 3 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI) (Japan)
O3-3-I Research Collaboration on Ionospheric Irregularities in Low-Latitude Region and Effects on Positioning and Navigation System (PDF 176KB)
Pornchai Supnithi1, *Jirapoom Budtho1, Lin Min Min Myint1, Keisuke Hosokawa2, Susumu Saito3, Michi Nichioka4, Septi Perwitasari4, Takuya Tsugawa4
1 King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (Thailand), 2 University of Electro-Communications (Japan), 3 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan), 4 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan)
O3-4-I Observations of equatorial plasma bubble using aeronautical navigation radio waves at VHF frequencies (PDF 255KB)
*Keisuke Hosokawa1, Susumu Saito2, Hiroyuki Nakata3, Chien-Hung Lin4, Jia-Ting Lin4, Pornchai Supnithi5, Jirapoom Budtho5, Jun Sakai1, Toru Takahashi2, Ichiro Tomizawa1, Michi Nishioka6, Takuya Tsugawa6, Mamoru Ishii6
1 University of Electro-Communications (Japan), 2 Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI) (Japan), 3 Chiba University (Japan), 4 National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), 5 King Mongkuts Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (Thailand), 6 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan)

Exhibition

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