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HCSL News
- T-NASA in the Smithsonian!
The T-NASA (Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness) system was on exhibit in 2005 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington DC. The Edgarville Airport interactive virtual airport exhibit includes a 5-minute video clip describing T-NASA and contains interviews of NASA Ames researchers Dr. Dave Foyle and Dr. Rob McCann.
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exhibit is still on display as part of an interactive display on NASA aeronautics works called "Edgarville Airport" at the Ames Exploration Visitor Center.
Edgarville Exhibit in the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum (Left), Dr. David Foyle in Edgarville Exhibit Video Clip (Right)
- Unlocking the Grid, PBS (2002)
T-NASA was featured in a 2002 PBS television documentary entitled "Unlocking the Grid". This one-hour educational television program addresses the complex reasons for increasing air traffic delays leading to gridlock at our nation's airports, and showcases advancing NASA/FAA technologies aimed at the improvement of ground capacity, efficiency and safety. One of the featured technologies was the Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness (T-NASA) System.
Click on the picture to view a video clip from the documentary including interviews with Dr. David Foyle, Dr. Tony Andre, Captain Dan Renfroe, and Captain Dale Finch discussing the T-NASA Head-Up Display and Electronic Moving Map and how they increase both taxi safety and efficiency.
(Click image to play QuickTime movie)
HCSL Awards and Honors
"Best of Track" Award for Conference Paper
A recently presented conference paper by Becky Hooey (TH/San Jose State University Research Foundation) and David Foyle (TH) at the International Workshop on Managing Knowledge for Space Missions (Pasadena, CA; July 17-19) was named "Best Paper in the area of Applied Knowledge Capture and Reuse. The paper discussed system requirements for a design rationale capture tool that supports conceptual design, design implementation, and design evaluation and transfer. Design techniques to minimize the burden of knowledge capture and maximize benefits throughout the entire design lifecycle were presented.
Reference: Hooey, B. L. & Foyle, D. C. (2007). Requirements for a design knowledge capture tool to support NASA's Complex Systems. International Workshop on Managing Knowledge for Space Missions. Pasadena, CA (July 17-19, 2007). Available at: http://humanfactors.arc.nasa.gov/ihi/hcsl/publications.html
POC(s): Becky Hooey, MSc, Ph.D. Cand., BHooey@mail.arc.nasa.gov, Ext. 4-2399.
NASA Group Achievement Award (2006)
The NASA Group Achievement Award was awarded to the System Level Integrated Concept (SLIC) Development Team for "successfully defining and developing revolutionary concepts to enable the desired growth for travel in the National Airspace System". HCSL staff received this award for efforts related to the development of future surface operations systems concepts in the Virtual Airspace Modeling and Simulation (VAMS) Project.
HCSL recipients: David C. Foyle, Anthony D. Andre
Digital Avionics System Conference (DASC) Best of Track (2000)
Awarded for the best paper in the Air Traffic Management Track at the 19th DASC.
"Integrating Datalink and Cockpit Display Technologies into Current and Future Taxi Operations"
Authors: Becky L. Hooey, David C. Foyle, Anthony D. Andre, and Bonny Parke.
> Download this paper (PDF)
SAE Wright Brothers Memorial Award (1999)
Awarded to the best paper relating to the invention, development, design, construction or operation of an aircraft and/or spacecraft.
"An Evaluation of the Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness (T-NASA) System in High-Fidelity Simulation" (SAE Paper No. 985541):
Authors: Robert S. McCann, Becky L. Hooey, Bonny Parke, Anthony D. Andre, David C. Foyle, Barbara G. Kanki
> Download this paper (PDF)
NASA Group Achievement Award (1998)
The NASA Group Achievement Award was awarded to the Low-Visibility Landing and Surface Operations Flight Validation Team "for significantly impacting the safety and efficiency of airport surface operations in all-weather conditions through development, integration, and demonstration of key navigation and situation awareness technologies". NASA's Low-Visibility Landing and Surface Operations (LVLASO) team successfully demonstrated, at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, the integration of key airborne and ground technologies that enable more efficient and safer airport surface navigation and situation awareness during roll-out, turn-off and taxi operations in all visibilities. The Flight Validation Team's experimental system would significantly reduce the more than 20,000 hours of delay currently occurring at each of the 23 major U.S. airports and the 287 hazardous incursion reported in 1996.
Ames recipients included: David C. Foyle, Rose Ashford, Barbara Kanki, Anthony D. Andre, Robert S. McCann, Becky L. Hooey, David Graeber, Mikel Atkins, Dominic Wong, and Steve Elkins.
NASA "Turning Goals into Reality (TGIR)" Award (Global Civil Aviation), (Nominated October, 1998).
Each year, recognition is given to accomplishments that have been judged as the most outstanding contribution toward each of the Enterprise Goals and Objectives. In 1998, NASA Ames Center Director nominated the Taxiway Navigation and Situation Awareness System (T-NASA) Design/Development Team for this award.
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