Projects
Major Research Areas of ENRI
Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI) is committed to improving the safety and reliability of air traffic, enhancing air traffic control, reducing environmental impact, enhancing airport operations, and developing fundamental technologies to support ATC operations in order to respond to technical issues in the policies promoted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and to support air traffic service operation for the second-year mid-term goals (FY2023-FY2029) of the National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology (MPAT). Accordingly, ENRI is intensively conducting the following R&D projects:
- Improved Air Traffic Safety and Reliability,
- Enhancement ATM and Environmental Impact Reduction,
- Advanced Airport Operations and
- Fundamental Technology Development for ATM/CNS.
※ Fundamental Research, etc.
1. Improved Air Traffic Safety and Reliability
Safer and more reliable air traffic services are imperative to enhance airspace and airport capacity. As part of efforts to establish safer and more reliable services, scope to improve the satellite/ground-based facilities that accommodate increased traffic volume and countermeasures to address system failure of the facilities are being studied.
- Navigation Systems that Take Advantage of a Next-Generation GNSS Environment
- Construction of Satellite Navigation Backup (APNT) for RNP Deployment throughout All Flight Phases
- Study on a Multi-Purpose Antenna for En-Route Surveillance
2. Enhancement ATM and Environmental Impact Reduction
As part of efforts to enhance airspace capacity, improve the environment and punctuality, studies on advanced ATM for robust operations, management of new airspace tailored for increasing advanced air mobility and delay reduction at congested airports are underway.
- International Air Traffic Flow Harmonization
- Trajectory Management Under Operational Constraints Caused by Significant Weather Conditions
- Investigation of Operational Environment for Advanced Air Mobility and Urban Air Mobility
- Studies on AMAN/DMAN/SMAN Integration
- Research on a System Architecture Design Focusing on Coordination between Functions in Time Management Operations
- Impact of ATC Support Functions on ATC Workload
3. Advanced Airport Operations
To facilitate a safe and efficient traffic flow at airports, studies on arrival/departure routes to improve the flexibility and environmental impact are underway and efficient runway usage is also being studied.
- A Study on Enhancing Airport Tower Operation Systems by Digitalization
- Study on the Application of Multi-Surveillance Systems in the Vicinity of Airports
- Research Into the Launch of an Airport Runway Foreign Object Debris Detection System and Streamlining Runway Maintenance Methods
- Research and Development into Advanced Approach and Landing Operations Utilizing GBAS
- Research on Improving Safety and Efficiency of Flight Procedures
4. Fundamental Technology Development for ATM/CNS
To refine ATM/CNS systems, basic studies to resolve technological issues in the ATM/CNS are underway.
- Study on Construction and Evaluation of SWIM Information Service for Collaborative Decision-Making
- Study on Advanced Aeronautical Communication Infrastructure
- Research on Spectrum Sharing with Aircraft Radio Altimeters and Co-/Adjacent Frequency-using Systems
- GNSS Performance Enhancement in the Low Magnetic Latitude Region and Its Evaluation
Exploratory Research
- Research on Imaging Radar Technology for Security Inspections
- Research on Contaminant Distribution Measurement and Condition Analysis for Runway Surfaces