This Unit takes care of developing and applying modern ICT-based technologies, and their multidisciplinary aggregation, which can lead to innovation in Aerospace and Transportation in general, and in other social high-impact fields such as Security, Environment and Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Energy. Its Supercomputing Centre provides computing resources to CIRA Labs dealing with numerical simulation and scientific computing.
The Computer Science Technologies and Services for Innovation technical-scientific unit manages Supercomputing ICT services, tools and applications. Furthermore it carries out applied scientific research activities and provides services in the fields listed below by means of corresponding Laboratories:
Virtual Reality and Computer Vision.
First-person immersive interaction approach devoted to design and training in application fields such as maintenance and assembly. Computer Vision for object detection, recognition, identification and tracking within video and images for vision-based guidance of autonomous vehicles, environment monitoring, security surveillance. Markerless Augmented Reality (real-virtual combination) in order to support on-field operators (maintenance mechanics, first responder, etc.) with view-dependent contextualized manual information.
Software Verification & Validation and RAMS.
It includes three capabilities in and integrated holistic approach: Independent Software Verification and Validation, Functional Systemic Integration, RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) Analysis, with the goal to increase transportation safety and to reduce accidents due to hardware, software, or component interface failures. The ISV&S-RAMS Lab gives its customers the ability to get a standard certification for their products.
Software Technologies.
Information and Knowledge Management in Aerospace, Security and Environment Safety with real-time constrains by taking care of the whole software product life cycle. For MRO processes the Software Technology Lab designs and develops software systems to allow technical and management processes to communicate and to plan optimal job scheduling and resource allocation. The Lab also design and develop DSS based on OLAP and Data/Text Mining. And enables the access to information and services by Mobile Input Terminal with adaptive user interfaces, and the dynamic taxonomy-based information storing and navigation.
Applied Meteorology.
This Lab studies algorithms and develop applications for forecasting meteorological conditions during all the flight phases, and to forecast meteorological phenomena which can potentially damage the aircraft (turbulence, ice, low visibility). This has relevant fallouts in other high socio-economic impact fields such as environment protection (climate change impacts on soil and coasts), renewable energy, security and mobility to name a few. The Applied Meteorology Lab is part of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Changes (CMCC), of which CIRA is co-founder.
Objectives
Using, developing and integrating ICT techniques, methodologies and tools (human-computer interface, computer vision, prognostics-diagnostics, RAMS analysis, DSS, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Certification standard, meteorology) with the goal to increase air transportation safety and mission success rate, to reduce accidents due to software failures and to improve the efficiency of engineering design and product support.
Providing Supercomputing and advanced visualization services and tools to the scientific/engineering simulation community.
Supporting technology evaluation by developing prototype and proof-of-concept applications for the industry.
Establish synergies between Aerospace and other application fields such as Environment Protection, Security, Transportation, Energy, by envisaging fallouts and technology transfer opportunities.
Contact
Dr. Pasquale SCHIANO
e-mail P.Schiano@cira.it
Phone: +39 0823 623140 - Fax: +39 0823 623126