The ISA Collaborative Human-in-the-Loop (CHILL) platform has been selected by EUROCONTROL to provide a V2 platform for the SESAR Step 2 validation infrastructure in support of SESAR WP7 Network Management concept validation and gaming experiments. The current version of CHILL has been installed at the EEC and is being aligned to match WP7 step 2/V2 validation needs. The platform is also foreseen to include early prototypes of B2B services to support WP7 experts in the validation and analysis of future collaborative NM concepts.

CHILL was originally developed in cooperation with the FAA Office of System Architecture as a demonstrator of the future ATM system with collaborative NAS information sharing through SWIM using a Service Oriented Architecture (1999).

In the decade which followed, CHILL has been successfully used to support several interoperable collaborative Human-in-the-Loop experiments including the EU Episode III SESAR Collaborative Network Management Gaming (2009) and more recently to support the SESAR WP-E Assessment of Degree of Automation on Human Roles (ADAHR) collaborative network management gaming (2012).

CHILL has also played an important role in the analysis of US collaborative network management and future concept analysis relating to the NextGen programme: In cooperation with the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Centre and the US DOT Volpe centre CHILL has been used in its Fast-Time Simulation mode to analyse Multi-Sector Planner (MSP) functions and tools (2005), User Preferred Routing (UPR) in the High Altitude Airspace (2009) and the use of High Performance Routes (HPR) for suitably equipped aircraft in response to unforeseen loss of airspace capacity (2011).

In collaboration with Lockheed Martin TSS and General Electric Research the CHILL-MONACO project produced an innovative solution to US NAS-Wide Demand-Capacity Balancing (DCB) based on User-Preferences, by applying a novel portfolio-based approach and advanced genetic algorithms

[Patent US 8185298 B2, US 20090105935 A1 & WO 2009052404 A1]. Working prototypes of these solutions were first presented on the LM booth at US Air Traffic Controller Conference (ATCA) for NAS-Wide DCB (2007) and regional DCB (2008) and at the EEC Innovative Research Conference (INO 2007).

CHILL components are also currently being used as part of the Safety Investigation Toolkit for Analysis and Reporting (SITAR) which is one of the core components of the FAA System Safety Management Transformation (SSMT) process currently being developed in cooperation with FAA, Boeing, Saab-Sensis, Volpe, Crown, MCR, GRA, Booze-Allen Hamilton, and IANS in the USA.

For more information please see CHILL page