Aviation Electronics Europe (AEE 2018) is a conference that covers topics such as:
- Commercial and business avionics
- SESAR and NextGen challenges, issues, solutions
- Commercial Avionics Market outlook
- Avionics upgrade modernisation and retrofit
- Buy new aircraft vs. upgrade avionics in existing fleet
- Successes/Case studies on integrating new avionics into older aircraft
- Equipage and regulatory/certification issues for SESAR/NextGen in the cockpit
- New developments in cockpit controls
- New developments in cockpit displays
- Airline, pilot, regulatory body perspectives on electronic flight bags, Apple`s iPad as an electronic flight bag
- ADS-B In technology, ADS-B Out, and ATSAW
- Harmonization efforts between SESAR and NextGen technologies
- Achieving standardization in flight management systems - case studies and lessons learned
- Latest avionics roadmaps from avionics system integrators; e.g., Thales, Rockwell Collins, Honeywell, Garmin, Universal Avionics, GE Aviation, etc
- Challenges and solutions for integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into civilian airspace
- Solutions for preventing runway incursions and excursions
- Airbus and Boeing avionics roadmaps
- ARINC Standards updates
- GPS technology for avionics systems
- Airline roadmaps for avionics and next-generation air traffic management (ATM) solutions
- Required navigation performance (RNP), required communication performance, and required surveillance performance methods and tools for avionics systems
- ASAS tools for the pilot
- Pilot perspective/lessons learned/human factors analysis of flying RNP, learning to use new next generation avionics systems
- 4D trajectory technology
- Avionics industry overall
- Certification requirements, tools and advice on achieving certifications
- Regulatory issues and information impacting the avionics industry
- Market analysis and future outlook for commercial, general, and defense avionics
- Standards impacting the avionics market, such as FACE, small form factors, etc
- Importance of rugged, high-reliability, and radiation-tolerant/hardened systems and components
- Increasing efficiency, such as in flight plans, reduced separation minima, fuel reduction technology, etc
- Cockpit display systems including Flight Critical Displays, Mission Display Units, Digital Map, Control Display Units, and Processing Units
- Safety and quality management systems (SMS/QMS)
- Enhanced vision system (EVS), synthetic vision system (SVS), combined vision system (CVS), and enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) use, trends, equipment, benefits/drawbacks
- Databus Technologies
- Embedded systems & software development trends & technologies current and future
- Power electronics, wiring harness, and thermal management issues (design issues, requirements management, battery safety, power conversion, heat dissipation and generation) in aircraft and rotorcraft, UAVs, spacecraft, satellites
- Simulation and training, for pilots (flight simulation/training)
- Software considerations, tools, concerns, and benefits, including secure real-time operating systems, (RTOS) development platforms and environments, code verification, electronic design automation (EDA), product lifecycle management (PLM), human-machine interfaces, and more
- Data acquisition, data exploitation, data transmission, data security, data storage, including sensors, electro-optics, cameras (still and video, thermal, etc.) used in data acquisition from satellites, gimbals on aircraft and rotorcraft, UAVs, etc
- Testing & measurement certification, trends, requirements, issues, tools & training
- Pilot issues, needs, technologies, trends, and tools
- Various sensors and associated hardware and software technologies employed on commercial and defense aircraft and satellites, including UAVs
- Air traffic management challenges, concerns, solutions, and options; comparing and contrasting methods; work being done at the government, association, and local levels
- Electronic flight bag (EFB) innovations, trends, tools, benefits over alternatives, and adoption
- Global positioning system (GPS), Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi avionics innovations, caveats
- Pilot display technologies and trends; comparing heads up and heads down displays
- Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) datalink vs. voice prompts, communications, and confirmations
- Connectivity, communications, IFE, datalink and voice
- Software Defined Radios, VHF/UHF Transceivers for Airborne Communications
- Aircraft Communications Security Issues and technologies
- Unmanned aircraft & ground control technologies
- Defense avionics
- Managing obsolescence in modern avionics systems
- Defense avionics market analysis, opportunities, and future outlook
- Impact of SESAR/NextGen airspace changes on military aviation
- Secure Communications including methods for anti-jam communications, Wideband interfaces for external encryption devices and Tap- and spoof-proof communications through integrated encryption
- COTS vs custom electronics in military avionics
- Case studies on military avionics retrofits
- Power and thermal management challenges and avionics solutions
- Electronics for size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained environments/cockpits
- Managing software changes in defense avionics systems
- Avionics test and evaluation challenges for military aircraft
- Detecting and avoiding counterfeit components
- Rapid system deployment for meeting immediate battlefield needs
- Lead-free challenges in military avionics
- Import/export (ITAR) compliance challenges when dealing with US government
- Global positioning systems (GPS) in avionics
- Defense avionics for targeting
- Aerial weaponry, including smart bombs with GPS-based avionics
- Satellite avionics innovations and geospatial imagery
- Wrist computer systems and digital flight gloves for pilots
- Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3G/4G technologies on the battlefield (manned and unmanned aircraft)
- Innovative avionics on the horizon, for the future force
- Voice and touch-screen control in the cockpit
- Helicopter/rotorcraft avionics
- Market/community concerns, including lack of new pilots, reduced flight hours, new taxes and fees, noise ordinances
- Meeting regulatory requirements; financial concerns, business cases, advice, tools
- Market analysis and outlook for commercial and defense rotorcraft
- Helicopter terrain avoidance warning systems (HTAWS)
- Situational Awareness
- Glass cockpit upgrades in defense and civil helicopter platforms
- Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS). Should this be fitted on more aircraft?
- NVG Technologies, issues & solutions
- Modifying, retrofitting new and existing rotorcraft for myriad applications (Medevac, oil and gas, etc.)
- Hybrid and electric rotorcraft designs, innovations
- Flight data recording, transmission, analysis, and storage systems for helicopters
- Leveraging open standards and COTS technology for helicopter cockpit retrofits
- Helicopter safety concerns, solutions, technologies
- Managing obsolescence and lifecycle costs of helicopter avionics systems
- Manned and unmanned rotorcraft training and simulation
- Satellite and space avionics
- Commercial (COTS) technology for satellite and spacecraft avionics
- Global space market forecast, opportunities (civil and defense)
- Opportunities afforded by the commercial spaceflight industry (manned and unmanned)
- Radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant challenges and solutions
- Unmanned & optionaly manned aerial vehicle avionics
- Weight challenges and solutions for avionics, instruments & components in UAV`s
- Challenges and solutions for controls, avionics and instruments in optionally manned aircraft
- Rugged, high-reliability components and systems for UAV avionics
- Managing shock and vibration in UAV avionics
- Power and thermal avionics issues and innovations for UAVs
- UAVs in public airspace: concerns, considerations, systems, solutions, impediments, advice
- Software challenges and solutions for unmanned avionics
- Security issues related to UAVs, UAV ground controls, data links, software code, sensors, more
- UAV global market analysis, opportunities, and future outlook
- Real-world UAV applications and success stories (civil and defense)
- Autonomy in UAVs: challenges and solutions
- Weaponized UAV concerns, challenges, caveats, and solutions
Aviation Electronics Europe (AEE 2018) brings together over 230 delegates from the Avionics community around the world.