scholarly journals A Digital Twin-Based Platform towards Intelligent Automation with Virtual Counterparts of Flight and Air Traffic Control Operations

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 10923
Author(s):  
Cho Yin Yiu ◽  
Kam K. H. Ng ◽  
Ching-Hung Lee ◽  
Chun Ting Chow ◽  
Tsz Ching Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Traffic Operations ◽  
Collaborative Decision Making ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
System Robustness ◽  
Collaborative Decision

Automation technologies have been deployed widely to boost the efficiency of production and operations, to trim the complicated process, and to reduce the human error involved. Nevertheless, aviation remains human-centred and requires collaboration between different parties. Given the lack of a collaborative decision-making training platform for air traffic operations in the industry, this study utilises the concept of cyber-physical systems (CPS) to formulate a system architecture for pilots and air traffic control officers training in collaborative decision making by linking and integrating the virtual counterparts of flights and air traffic control operations. Collaborative decision-making training and the corresponding intelligent automation aids could be realised and supported. A performance analysis via a flight task undertaken with different computational load settings was prepared to evaluate the platform’s latency and integrity. The latency is presented using its 95% confidence interval, and integrity is presented using the percentage of data loss during wireless transmission. The results demonstrated convincing performance and a promising system robustness in both domains.

Intelligent Automated System for Supporting the Collaborative Decision Making by Operators of the Air Navigation System During Flight Emergencies

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-90
Author(s):  
Yuliya Sikirda ◽  
Mykola Kasatkin ◽  
Dmytro Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Sequential Optimization ◽  
Collaborative Decision Making ◽  
Air Traffic Controller ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Human Operators ◽  
Collaborative Decision

This chapter researches pilot and air traffic controller collaborative decision making (CDM) during flight emergencies for maximum synchronization of operators' technological procedures. Deterministic models of CDM by the Air Navigation System's human operators were obtained by network planning methods; their adequacy is confirmed by full-scale modeling on a complex flight simulator. For the sequential optimization of the collaborative two-channel network “Air traffic controller-Pilot” to achieve the end-to-end effectiveness of joint solutions, a multi-criteria approach was used: ensuring the minimum time to parry flight emergency with maximum safety/maximum consistency over the time of operators' actions. With the help of the multiplicative function, the influence of organizational risk factors on flight safety in the air traffic control was evaluated. A conceptual model of System for control and forecasting the flight emergency development on the base of Intelligent Automated System for supporting the CDM by operators was developed.

scholarly journals Assessment of the application feasibility of the genetic algorithm for airports operations optimization based on the collaborative decision-making principles

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
G. M. Lebedev ◽  
V. B. Malygin
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Collaborative Decision Making ◽  
Original Product ◽  
Multiplicative Form ◽  
Collaborative Decision

The article proposes a formalization methodology of the basic characteristics of the production processes of the aviation industry major components, such as airlines, airports and air traffic control authorities. This technique is not exhaustive, but it is quite suitable as the basis for the formation of the initial data for decision-making optimization under the conditions of airport operations performance and air traffic management, based on the principles of work coordination of the airports operational units. It is proposed to use a genetic algorithm as a tool for optimizing collaborative decision-making, which allows for a smaller number of iterations in real time to obtain a suboptimal solution that meets the requirements of the process participants. The mathematical model in multiplicative form is presented in making an assessment of the application feasibility of the genetic algorithm, taking into account the interests of three stakeholders. Planning the use of aircraft for the airport flight schedule based on the formalized data of the airline fleet, the capabilities of the base airport apron, as well as the restrictions of permanent and temporary nature is accepted as the original product. The article demonstrates the potential advantage of the genetic algorithm, the point of which is that within each step of a suboptimal choice of priorities instead of brute-force options limited but effective direct search of a reduced number of those options that have been chosen as the "elite" by using multiplicative form is carried out.

Air Traffic Control: Human Error Type Interactions

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Bailey ◽  
Julia Pounds ◽  
Carol Manning ◽  
David Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Error Type

Redisign of the Air Traffic Control System-Moving People through Distributed Management

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 485-485
Author(s):  
John G. Kreifeldt
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Critical Function ◽  
Congressional Hearings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Traffic Control System

The present national Air Traffic Control system is a ground-centralized, man intensive system which through design allows relatively little meaningful pilot participation in decision making. The negative impact of this existing design can be measured in delays, dollars and lives. The FAA's design plans for the future ATC system will result in an even more intensive ground-centralized system with even further reduction of pilot decision making participation. In addition, controllers will also be removed from on-line decision making through anticipated automation of some or all of this critical function. Recent congressional hearings indicate that neither pilots nor controllers are happy or sanguine regarding the FAA's design for the future ATC system.

scholarly journals Multiobjective Optimization Model for Collaborative En-Route and Slot Allocation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Shangwen Yang ◽  
Jingting Zhang ◽  
Ping Chen ◽  
Yongjie Yan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Numerical Test ◽  
Simulated Data ◽  
Slot Allocation ◽  
Collaborative Decision Making ◽  
Average Delay ◽  
Flight Delay ◽  
Collaborative Decision

To allocate the en-routes and slots resource to the flights with collaborative decision-making, a multiobjective 0-1 integer programming model was proposed. According to different demands from air traffic control departments, airlines, and passengers, efficiency, equity, and effectiveness principles of collaborative decision-making were considered. With the aim to minimize the total flight delay costs, the total number of turning points, and average delay time of passengers, the effectiveness constraints were achieved. The algorithm was designed to solve the model on the basis of the objective method, and Lingo11 and MatlabR2007b were applied in numerical tests. To test how well the model works in real world, a numerical test was performed based on the simulated data of a civil en-route. Test results show that, compared with the traditional strategy of first come first served, the model gains better effect. The superiority of the model was verified.

An Automated Conflict-alert Function for an Air Traffic Control System

1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-481
Author(s):  
P. Bertolazzi ◽  
M. Lucertini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
Number Of False Alarms ◽  
Traffic Control System

The major purpose of an air traffic control system is to ensure the separation of two or more aircraft flying in the same airspace, with an efficiency that can be expressed in terms of capacity and cost. As air traffic grows in numbers it becomes necessary to reduce the workload of the controllers by relieving them of many monitoring tasks, and eventually some decision-making tasks, through computerized automation. In this context many developments tend to build up an efficient conflict-alert subsystem.The problem of conflict-alert in the air needs strategic tools, to make collision unlikely or even impossible, and tactical tools to detect impending collisions. The latter detect potentially hazardous aircraft encounters and alert the controller in time to warn the pilots (if necessary) and should obviously provide this capability with a minimal number of false alarms and no increase in workload.

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