SEMT 4253 Aircraft Instrumentation and Avionics

Group Projects

Project Topic (1)

Air Traffic Management (ATM): Operational Concept
- General ATM concept
- Enroute ATM concepts
- Surface ATM concepts
- Terminal ATM concepts

Project Topic (2)

Air Traffic Management (ATM): Demonstration, Evaluation
and Validation
- Fast time modeling and analysis
- Human in the loop studies
- Demonstration and scale down mode
- Performance measurement
- ATM R&D and validation philosophy

Project Topic (3)

Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS)
Technologies
- Demonstration, evaluation and experiment
- Architecture and protocol
- Communication system technologies
- Surveillance and navigation data in the cockpit
- Surveillance system technologies

Project Topic (4)

Avionics system engineering
- Processes and tool
- Air traffic system management
- Integrated system engineering (panel)
- Complex system
- System interoperability
 Project Topic (5)
Avionics for UAV & missiles
- Avionics for guided system
- Experiment UAV programs
- Planning and flight control methods
- Intelligent interaction for UAV operation

Project Topic (6)

Space system
- Space system element and flight software
- Space avionics system
- Planning and flight control methods

Project Topic (7)

Avionics for general aviation
- General aviation technologies
- Cockpit instruments and integration
- In flight entertainment equipments
- Health and safety devices

Project Topic (8)

Synthetic vision and situation awareness
- Situation awareness displays
- Synthetic vision technologies
- Enhanced vision and sensor technologies

Project Topic (9)

Aircraft avionics and vehicle health monitoring (VHM)
- Upgrade consideration
- Reliability improvement
- VHM system
 Project Topic (10)
Flight critical system
- High integrity equipment
- High integrity architectures
- Integration, verification and validation of flight critical
function
- The electromagnetic environment

Project Topic (11)

Avionics for electronic warfare (EW)
- Radar
- Navigation
- Control system
- Synthetic vision and display
- Human machine interface
- Sensors and transducers

Project Topic (12)

Pilot and aircraft avionics interface
- Electronics flight instrument system (EFIS)
- Mode control panel (MCP)
- Control display unit (CDU)
- Engine information and crew alerting system (EICAS)
The project specifications:
1. Students are grouped into several groups and each
group is required to select one topic for their group
project.
2. Each project requires
i. A comprehensive literature survey of the
chosen topics
ii. A literature survey report with a Maximum
of 10000 words or 20 pages to be written in
PDF format. The format of this report shall
be the same as FYP thesis.
iii. A power point presentation consisting not
more than 20 slides in MS-Powerpoint
iv. Both the report and power point
presentation shall be submitted online
through elearning.
3. The report and power point presentation shall be
submitted on 28th January 2022 or earlier.