Aeronautical Taxonomy Report

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This report summarizes the PAE’s proposed taxonomy for Aeronautical (Aeronautics + Aviation in the same terms defined by ACARE) with the following main objectives:

1. Having a common understanding and language to define our Strategic Research Agenda (commonly accepted definitions of technologies).

2. Classifying the entries in our Catalogue of Capabilities and Infrastructures.3. Obtaining, by analysis of the classified information, a better knowledge of our

needs and capabilities to do research and taking better decisions.

The report is divided in two parts: the overview of the different levels of the taxonomy (main branches) contained in the present document, and the detailed description of all the branches contained in the Annex.

There is a similar document defining the PAE-SPACETAXONOMY.

The following references have been used to prepare this document:

R1. NLR-CR-2002-688 “ACARE Taxonomy A common European taxonomy for aeronautical research & technology” published in January 2003 and used as the basis for the Research & Technology part of the AEROTAXONOMY. An alternative link can be found in the easn (European Aeronautics Science Network) that has the ASTERA taxonomy for aeronautical R&T

R2. “Technology Roadmap of SMART”, the Eureka Advanced Manufacturing Program, draft 2, published in January 13th, 2017 and used in part as a guide for the “New Industry paradigms for space manufacturing ” part of the SPACETAXONOMY

R3 “North American Industry Classification System”, United States 2017

R4 “REGULATION (EC) No 1893/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities”

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PAE-AEROTAXONOMY

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

SEGMENTS OF ACTIVITY (2)

SOLUTIONS FOR SOCIETY (3)

AERONAUTICS & SOCIETY (4)

How do we make the things?

What the people is working for?

What the aeronautical activity is applied for?

How the relationship with other sectors is?

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RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

(1)

Flight Physics (1-A)

Aerostructures (1-B)

Propulsion & Power(1-C)

Aircraft Avionics, Systems & Equipments (1-D)

Flight Mechanics (1-E)

Integrated Design & Validation (methods & tools) (1-F)

Air Traffic Management (1-G)

Airports (1-H)

Human Factors (1-I)

Innovative Concepts & Scenarios (1-J)

Digital Industry - Industry 4.0 (1-L)

We start knowing the environment (1A), then we need a the skeleton (1B). Propulsion is needed at least to take-off (1C), then Equipments and Systems with their connections (1D) and control and maintain the flight path (1-E) and, aircrafts must be designed and validated as a whole (1F). The air traffic must be controlled (1G) and adequate airports must be provided (1H). Human factors must always be taken into account (1-I)Innovative aerial systems are continuously developed (1J)Nowadays we are specially involved in development of unmanned systems (1K).Digitalization of industrial processes is crucial also in aeronautics (1L)

How do we make the things ?

Unmanned Aerial Systems Technologies (1-K)

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SEGMENTS OF ACTIVITY

(2)

Research &Technology Development (2-A)

Commercial & Programmes (2-B)

Manufacturing & Testing (2-D)

System Integration & Validation (2-F)

Flight Testing (2-G)

Certification & Airworthiness (2-H)

Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (2-I)

Air Traffic Management (2-J)

Airport Management (2-K)

Air Transport (2-L)

Design (2-C)

Quality (2-E)

People can work in one or several of the following fields:• Doing RTD for aviation (2A)• Managing programs (2B)• Selling or studying the market (2B)• Designing aviation systems or

subsystems (2C)• Manufacturing and testing aviation

elements (2D)• Assuring the quality (2E)• Integrating and validating aviation

elements into systems (2F)• Doing Flight Testing (2G)• Running certification & airworthiness

activities (2H)• Doing maintenance, repair and

overhaul of aviation systems (2I)• Doing air traffic management(2J)• Doing airport management(2K)• Providing air transportation services

(2L)• Doing general management &

administration (2M)General Management &

Administration (2-M)

What the people is working for?

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SOLUTIONS FOR SOCIETY

(3)

Scheduled Air Passenger Transport (3-A)

General Aviation(3-B)

Defence(3-D)

Air Freight(3-C)

Security(3-E)

Civil Surveillance(3-F)

Future Applications (3-H)

Environmental(3-G)

What the aeronautical activity is applied for?

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AERONAUTICS & SOCIETY

(4)

Other industries (4-A)

Economy (4-B)

International Co-operation (4-D)

Education (4-E)

Outreach (4-F)

Humanities (4-G)

Policy & Regulations (4-C)

How the relationship with other sectors is?

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RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

(1)

How do we make the things?

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Flight Physics (1-A)

Computational Fluid Dynamics (1-A-1)

Unsteady Aerodynamics (1-A-2)

Aeronautical Propulsion Integration (1-A-3)

Airflow Control (1-A-4)

High Lift Devices (1-A-5)

Wing Design (1-A-6)

Aerodynamic of External and Removable Items (1-A-7)

Wind Tunnel Testing/Technology (1-A-8)

Computational Acoustics (1-A-10)

External Noise Prediction (1-A-11)

Wind tunnel Measuring Techniques (1-A-9)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Aerostructures (1-B)

Metallic Materials & basic processes (1-B-1)

Non-Metallic Materials & basic processes (1-B-2)

Composite Materials & basic processes (1-B-3)

Advanced Manufacturing Processes & Technologies (1-B-4)

Structural Analysis and Design (1-B-5)

Aero-elasticity (1-B-6)

Buckling, Vibrations and Acoustics (1-B-7)

Smart Materials and Structures (1-B-8)

Structures behaviour and Material Testing (1-B-9)

Internal Noise Prediction (1-B-10)

Helicopter Aero-acoustics (1-B-11)

Aircraft Security (1-B-14)

Noise Reduction (1-B-12)

Acoustic Measurements and Test Technology (1-B-13)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Propulsion & Power (1-C)

Performance (1-C-1)

Turbomachinery / Propulsion Aerodynamics (1-C-2)

Combustion (1-C-3)

Air-breathing propulsion (1-C-4)

Heat Transfer (1-C-5)

Nozzles, Vectored Thrust, Reheat (1-C-6)

Engine Controls (1-C-7)

Auxiliary Power Unit (1-C-8)

Fuels and Lubricants (1-C-9)

Test Bench Calibration (1-C-10)

Engine Health Monitoring (1-C-11)

Emissions pollution (1-C-14)

Experimental Facilities and Measurement Techniques (1-C-12)

Computational Methods (1-C-13)

Electrical Power Generation & Distribution (1-C-15)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Aircraft Avionics, Systems & Equipments

(1-D)

Avionics (1-D-1)

Cockpit Systems, Visualization & Display Systems (1-D-2)

Navigation / Flight Management / Autoland (1-D-3)

Warning Systems (1-D-4)

Electronics & Microelectronics for on-board systems (1-D-5)

Sensors integration (1-D-6)

Flight Data / Flight Recording (1-D-7)

Communications Systems (1-D-8)

Identification (1-D-9)

Avionics Integration (1-D-10)

Optics - Optronics - Lasers - Image processing and data fusion

(1-D-11)

Smart maintenance systems (1-D-14)

Electronic Library System (1-D-12)

Aircraft health and usage monitoring system (1-D-13)

Lighting systems (1-D-15)

Aircraft Security (1-D-16)

Mission Sensors & Equipments (1-D-17)

Pneumatic systems (1-D-18)

Hydraulic power generation & distribution

(1-D-19)

Passenger and freight systems (1-D-20)

Environmental control systems (1-D-21)

Water and waste systems (1-D-22)

Fuel systems (1-D-23)

Landing gear and braking systems (1-D-24)

Fire Protection Systems (1-D-25)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Flight Mechanics (1-E)

Open-loop Aircraft Stability Analysis (1-E-1)

Flight control system(1-E-2)

Aircraft Performance Analysis (1-E-3)

Environmental Hazard Analysis (1-E-6)

Optimisation of Aircraft Performance (1-E-4)

System Failure and Damage Analysis (1-E-5)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Integrated Design and Validation (methods &

tools) (1-F)

Methods and IT tools for CollaborativeProduct & Process Engineering (1-F-1)

On-board systems engineering (1-F-2)

Environmental and EM compliance engineering process (1-F-3)

Flight / Ground Tests (1-F-4)

Life-cycle Integration (1-F-5)

System Certification (1-F-6)

Fault Tolerant Systems (1-F-7)

Hazard Analysis (1-F-8)

Safety modelling (1-F-9)

Air Safety Data analysis (1-F-10)

System reliability (1-F-11)

Infra-red and Radar Signature Control (1-F-14)

Security / Risk analysis (1-F-12)

Maintenance modelling (1-F-13)

Information management & Knowledge management (Methods & tools) (1-F-19)

Autonomous operation (1-F-20)

Aeronautical Software Engineering (1-F-21)

Development of operational research methods & tools (1-F-22)

Development of synthetic environment & virtual reality tools (1-F-23)

Aircraft performance assessment (1-F-24)

Airport performance assessment (1-F-25)

Business modelling (1-F-26)

Numerical Models (including Fast Time Simulation) (1-F-27)

Real Time Simulators (1-F-28)

Advanced information processing (1-F-15)

Collaborative Decision Making (1-F-16)

Simulator environments & Virtual reality (1-F-17)

Decision Support Systems (1-F-18)

General Purpose Equipment (1-F-29)

Reference Data for R&D Use and live/RT data Use (1-F-30)

Methodology (Validation) (1-F-31)

Large scale validation Experiments (1-F-32)

Large scale validation Platforms (1-F-33)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Air Traffic Management

(1-G)

Overall ATM (1-G-1)

Airspace Management (1-G-2)

Flow and Capacity Management (1-G-3)

Communications and Systems Technology (1-G-4)

Navigation Systems (1-G-5)

Surveillance Sensor Systems (1-G-6)

ATM Automated Support (1-G-7)

Airport Traffic Management (1-G-8)

Airport Operations (1-G-9)

Airline Operations (1-G10)

Meteorological (1-G-11)

R&D Management and Co-ordination (1-G-12)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Airports (1-H)

Security Equipment (1-H-1)

Crisis Management (1-H-2)

Airport External Safety (1-H-3)

Airport Security (1-H-4)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Human Factors (1-I)

Human Factors Integration, Man-machine Interface (1-I-1)

Human Information Processing (1-I-2)

Human Performance Modelling & Enhancement (1-I-3)

Human Element in Security (1-I-6)

Selection & Training (1-I-4)

Human Survivability, Protection and Stress Effects (1-I-5)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Innovative Concepts &

Scenarios (1-J)

Scenarios analysis (1-J-1)

Unconventional configurations and new aircraft concepts (1-J-2)

Breakthrough technologies (1-J-3)

Hybrid & Electric Power and Propulsion

(1-J-4)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Unmanned Aerial Systems Technologies

(1-K)

UAV technologies(1-K-1)

Ground station technologies(1-K-2)

Communication technologies(1-K-3)

UAV-ATM technologies(1-K-4)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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Digital Industry / Industry 4.0

(1-L)

Digital, Virtual and Efficient Companies (1-L-2)

Person-Machine Collaboration (1-L-3)

Sustainable Manufacturing (1-L-4)

Intelligent and Adaptive Manufacturing Systems (1-L-1)

Customer-based Manufacturing (1-L-5)

RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (1)

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AERONAUTICS & SOCIETY

(4)

How the relationship with other sectors is?

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Other Industries(4-A)

AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHING AND HUNTING (4-A-1)

MINING, QUARRYING, OIL & GAS EXTRACTION (4-A-2)

UTILITIES (ENERGY, WATER AND OTHER SYSTEMS) (4-A-3)

PETROLEUM, CHEMICAL & PLASTIC PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (4-A-5)

METALLIC & NON-METALLIC PRODUCT MANUFACTURING (4-A-6)

MACHINERY MANUFACTURING (4-A-7)

COMPUTER, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC PRODUCT

MANUFACTURING (4-A-8)

CONSTRUCTION (4-A-4)

MOTOR VEHICLE MANUFACTURING (4-A-9)

SPACE PRODUCTS AND PARTS MANUFACTURING (4-A-10)

RAILROAD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (4-A-11)

SHIP & BOATS MANUFACTURING (4-A-12)

OTHER TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING (4-A-13)

OTHER MANUFACTURING(4-A-14)

OTHER TRANSPORTATIONS (4-A-16)

ENGINEERING SERVICES (4-A-17)

HEALTH CARE & SOCIAL ASSISTANCE (4-A-18)

OTHER SERVICES AND OTHER SECTORS (4-A-19)

SPACE TRANSPORTATION (4-A-15)

AERONAUTICS & SOCIETY (4)

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In the elaboration of the present issue of the PAE’s taxonomies have participated the following entities and persons:

Miguel Ángel Castillo and Ángela Targhetta

Javier Borrás and Silvia Lazcano

Carlos Montesano and Pedro Rubio

Ángel Barrio

Demetrio López

José Luis Leal

Ignacio Tourné

Fernando Lasagni and Joaquín Rodríguez

Almudena del Teso

César Fernández and José Miguel Pascual

Héctor Guerrero, Marta March and Susana Martín

Plácido Márquez and Miguel Reynés

Bernardo Delicado

Vicente Gómez

Mario Insunza and Ana Santiago

Javier Coleto

Pablo Zúmel

Eusebio Valero

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