A roadmap for the implementation of augmented reality solutions for airport control towers in an operative environment

This paper describes how augmented reality has been recently exploited to define novel concepts for helping control tower operators in the aerodrome traffic zone. Starting from solutions developed within the SESAR research framework through real-time simulations, the paper describes the work done so far in transferring the developed solutions to an operative scenario (i.e. an actual control tower), exploiting ADS-B data and a HoloLens2TM head-mounted device. Finally, a roadmap covering the missing steps for completing the operational concept is proposed, orderly defining the missing steps and possible solutions.