H2020 SESAR RETINA (Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision)

The RETINA (Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision) project investigates the potential and applicability of SV tools and Virtual/Augmented Reality (V/AR) display techniques for the Air Traffic Control (ATC) service provision by the airport control tower. In the RETINA concept, controllers are no longer limited by what the human eye can physically see out of the tower windows. As trust in digital data will continue to grow, RETINA’s concept will allow the controller to have a head-up view of the airport traffic even in low visibility conditions similar to the synthetic vision currently used in the cockpit. RETINA builds upon the technologies developed in SESAR, such as remote tower, safety nets, SWIM, to provide augment reality tools for the tower controller. In the two-year project the concept was developed, implemented and validated by means of human-in-the-loop real time simulation.