About the Automatic Pseudopilot

The automatic pseudopilot (aPP) is meant to substitute a human pseudopilot during the training of air traffic control operators (ATCO). It is a multimodal dialogue system that uses automatic speech recognition (ASR), spoken language understanding (SLU) and speech synthesis (TTS). This allows a user to communicate with a computer in a way that resembles spoken dialogue between humans.

About this Demonstration

This demonstration of the aPP allows anyone to experience what it takes to handle the traffic in an airspace.

You will be able to issue spoken commands to airplanes in a virtual airspace and the pilots will respond. There is an evaluation of your session at the end - you can compete to get the highest score, play back your session, view some statistics about it and share it with your friends.

We have prepared several exercises ranging from simple objectives like "make a plane fly at a certain flight level" through exercises with vectoring to more complex scenarios where you have to carefully navigate the airplanes in a crowded airspace to avoid collisions.

We recommend using a headset with a microphone. Any other type of microphones can result in worse recognition results. We have also prepared a cheat sheet on how to pronounce aircraft's callsign and examples of commands.

If you do not have a microphone at all, this demo is not for you, sorry. You can watch a video of a short exercise session instead.

aPP servers

Choose one of the servers from the list below to start your session.

The airplanes on each server can be controlled only by one user at a time. The servers with green badges are available for an immediate start of the exercise. Occupied servers are marked by red badges (the numbers in them tell you how many people are connected to that server). You can join the occupied servers but you have to wait in a queue for your turn.