Individual Prediction Modelling for Air Traffic Control using Supervised Learning

In the future, Air Traffic Controllers are expected to work together with more advanced computer-based automation that can automatically take action. The main challenge is then how to design computer-based tools such that they foster acceptance among air traffic controllers. One possible approach to foster acceptance is by matching the automated...

Urban Air Traffic Management For Collision Avoidance with Non-Cooperative Airspace Users

With the rise of new and innovative Urban Air Mobility solutions, there also arises a need to integrate these into the existing airspace. Current airspace users include conventional civil, commercial and general aviation, military air users, police and emergency services as well as a plethora of avian life. Planned additions to the airspace are...

Metropolis II: Benefits of Centralised Separation Management in High-Density Urban Airspace

The Metropolis II project aimed to study the impact of centralised separation management for urban aerial mobility. Three concepts were developed in this study: a fully centralised, strategically separated concept, a hybrid concept featuring cen- tralised strategic separation and distributed tactical separation, and a fully distributed tactical...

Towards Explainable Automation for Air Traffic Control Using Deep Q-learning from Demonstrations and Reward Decomposition

The current ATC system is seen as the most significant limitation to coping with an increased air traffic density. Transitioning towards an ATC system with a high degree of automation is essential to cope with future traffic demand of the airspace. In recent studies, reinforcement learning has shown promising results automating Conflict...

Safety Optimization of a Layered Airspace Structure with Supervised Learning

The capacity of the current system of air traffic is rapidly reaching a limit with the increasing demand for air transportation. Expected future traffic densities not only make automated conflict detection and resolution a necessity, but also force a re-evaluation of coordination elements to decrease conflict rate and severity. It has been...

Implicit Coordinated Tactical Avoidance for UAVs within a Geofenced Airspace

This research presents the derivation, implementation and safety assessment of a velocity obstacle- based conflict resolution method to be used by UAVs flying within a horizontally restricted airspace by a geofence under the presence of wind. Two parameters indicating the safety of the applied conflict resolution method have been measured, i.e.,...

Coordination in Multi-Actor Self-Separation in Complex Airspace Environments: A human-in-the-loop experiment using the Solution Space Diagram

The Air Traffic Management research community expects that the responsibility of maintaining a minimum safe separation distance between aircraft will move from the groundbased Air Traffic Control, a centralized system, towards the flight deck, a decentralized system. Previous research on the decentralized, also known as distributed Air Traffic...