COPAC is a transformative novel area in computing both because of the technology, coherent information transfer by ultrafast laser addressing of engineered quantum dots, QD, arrays and because of the specialized parallel processing of large amounts of information. We will make foundational experimental, theoretical and algorithmic innovations to demonstrate a new technological paradigm for ultrafast parallel multi-valued information processing. We aim to develop a ground-breaking nonlinear coherent spectroscopy combining optical addressing and spatially macroscopically resolved optical readout to achieve unprecedented levels of speed, density and complexity. Two key high-risk / high-reward pioneering elements are the quantum engineered coherent concatenation of units and the multidirectional optical detection. Experimental demonstrations on tailored multilayer QD arrays of increasing complexity, integration into a device and novel hardware and matched compilers will be delivered. Preliminary experimental demonstrations of the response of solutions and of QD films are available as is the validation of logic operation in parallel. We use the dynamic response of the designed QD arrays to implement novel paradigms for parallel information processing. The discrete quantal level structure of nanosystems provides a memory at room temperature. Input will be provided simultaneously to all the levels by broadband laser pulses and the dynamical response will implement the logic in parallel. Disorder and environmental fluctuations are not detrimental because controlled level broadening is essential for the simultaneous multidirectional optical readout at the macroscopic level. The long term vision of COPAC is the application of atomic and molecular state resolved controlled quantum dynamic processes towards information processing. Within this our targeted breakthrough is a novel prototype device for parallel logic engineered to industry standards and with suitable compilers.

Complementing the ACI/IATA efforts, FLYSEC project aims to develop and demonstrate an innovative integrated and end-to-end airport security process for passengers, enabling a guided and streamlined procedure from the landside to airside and into the boarding gates, and offering for the first time an operationally validated innovative concept for end-to-end aviation security. On the technical side, FLYSEC achieves its ambitious goals by integrating new technologies on video surveillance, intelligent remote image processing and biometrics combined with big data analysis, open-source intelligence and crowdsourcing. Repurposing existing technologies is also in the FLYSEC objectives, such as mobile application technologies for improved passenger experience and positive boarding applications (i.e. services to facilitate boarding and landside/airside wayfinding) as well as RFID for carry-on luggage tracking and quick unattended luggage handling. Besides more efficient background checks and passenger profiling, FLYSEC aims to implement a seamless risk-based security process within FLYSEC combining the aforementioned technologies with behavioural analysis and innovative cognitive algorithms. A key aspect in the design of FLYSEC risk-based security is applying ethical-by-design patterns, maximizing the efficiency of security controls through passenger differentiation ranging from “unknown” to “trusted”, while remaining ethical and fair in the process. Policy, regulatory and standardisation aspects will also be examined in the context of FLYSEC innovative security concept.

The ANGI-HUD (Advanced Next Generation Intelligent Head Up Display) proposal responds to the 2nd Call for Proposals of the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking under the topic JTI-CS2-2015-CFP02-LPA-03-06 “Head Up System integration in next generation cockpits”. The consortium can meet the technical challenges. Within IADP LPA Platform 3 (“Next Generation Aircraft Systems, Cockpit and Avionics”) a number of new and advanced functions are developed and demonstrated that will be considered and elaborated on in the ANGI-HUD project. Specifically, the ANGI-HUD activities will line up with the work performed under WP3 of the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking. The main objective of the ANGI-HUD project is to analyse how the capacities of the Head Up Display could be used to provide new functionalities, in combination with other visualization means, and to demonstrate them on a fixed-based simulator. The ANGI-HUD project will contribute to the analysis of potential new functionalities, prototype the intended new Man Machine Interface, provide the Airframer with two representative Head Up Systems, including rapid prototyping capacities, and participate to, and support, bench tests at the Airframer’s simulation facilities. A rather novel and ambitious aspect will be the development of the so-called ‘eyes- out cockpit concept’; i.e. the capability to perform approaches and landings only using the information displayed on the ANGI-HUD and via HUD-integrated eye tracking technology. The comprehensive experience of the partners in the areas of head up systems, head up symbology design, flight simulation, cockpit design, human factors evaluations, as well as experience in simulator and flight testing of airliners and business jet flight operations motivated the common application to this call. The specific skills and know-how of each partner and their complementarity are crucial for demonstrating a higher TRL for the technologies considered here.