Aerospace Cogntiive Engineering Lab (ACEL) Automation Enabled Pilot (AEP) Series

A gap between the pace of development of aircraft automation and methods to assure the safety of the capabilities in operation has been recently identified as aircraft regulators are facing an unprecedented diversity of applicant aircraft configurations in aviation segments generally referred to as Advanced Air Mobility (AAM).
This presentation describes investigative work referred to as the Automation Enabled Pilot (AEP) research. The AEP series aims to develop evaluation methods that accommodate a range of automated aircraft systems (i.e., pilot on-onboard, remotely operated, or autonomous), a diversity of aircraft configurations (i.e. fixed wing, tilt-rotor, tilt-wing, lift plus cruise), and novel operational concepts as part of a series of research activities.