Minimizing Environmental Impact of Cruise Flights using Meta-heuristic and Optimal Control Optimizations

Aviation has a negative impact on the environment. As the number of flights is expected to increase, the total environmental impact of aviation will continue to worsen. New solutions are required to mitigate these effects. Aircraft Trajectory Optimization For Environmental Impact (TOFEI) can help reduce the impact of aircraft pollutants while...

Long Short-Term Memory Network Based Trajectory Prediction Incorporating Air Traffic Dynamics

Accurate 4D trajectory predictions are required for the implementation of Trajectory Based Operations. In addition, decentralized, free routing can make medium- to long-term flight trajectories more difficult to predict. Novel trajectory prediction techniques are needed, independent of waypoint-to-waypoint navigation and air traffic control...

ADS-B Signal Integrity and Security Verification Using a Coherent Software Defined Radio: Mitigation of the threat of maliciously injected signals in ADS-B networks

Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) is an operational enhancement as part of next-generation air transportation systems in Air Traffic Control. It enables aircraft and airport vehicles to periodically broadcast the information from their on-board equipment, like their identification, GPS location, velocity, and intent. Compared...

Modeling and Detecting Anomalous Safety Events in Approach Flights Using ADS-B Data

This thesis shows that it is possible to produce safety knowledge by mining Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data. The methodology combines exceedance detection and anomaly detection techniques to identify anomalous safety events in approach flights. One of these events is unstable approaches, which are identified with a rule...

Aircraft Performance Parameter Estimation using Global ADS-B and Open Data

To enable low cost open source ATM simulations the University of Technology Delft is developing an open source ATM simulator Bluesky. A method was developed to identify aircraft performance parameters using ADS-B and other open sources of data. The goal is to determine the operational flight envelope and get estimates for the lift- and drag...