Hybrid Machine Learning and Estimation-Based Flight Trajectory Prediction in Terminal Airspace

For air traffic management, trajectory prediction plays an important role as the predicted trajectory information is used in crucial tasks for the safety and efficiency of air traffic operations, such as conflict detection and resolution, scheduling, and sequencing. In this paper, we propose a frame...

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Autores principales: Hong-Cheol Choi, Chuhao Deng, Inseok Hwang
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:655ed8e18f544876a4bc4fe38b9b90ff2021-11-17T00:00:31ZHybrid Machine Learning and Estimation-Based Flight Trajectory Prediction in Terminal Airspace2169-353610.1109/ACCESS.2021.3126117https://doaj.org/article/655ed8e18f544876a4bc4fe38b9b90ff2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9605684/https://doaj.org/toc/2169-3536For air traffic management, trajectory prediction plays an important role as the predicted trajectory information is used in crucial tasks for the safety and efficiency of air traffic operations, such as conflict detection and resolution, scheduling, and sequencing. In this paper, we propose a framework for trajectory prediction in terminal airspace by combining a machine learning-based method and a physics-based estimation method. A trajectory prediction model based on machine learning is trained from historical surveillance data to represent the collective behavior of a set of flight trajectories, from which the data-driven prediction can be obtained as the expected future behavior of an incoming flight. A physics-based estimation algorithm called Residual-Mean Interacting Multiple Models (RM-IMM) then incorporates the machine learning prediction as a pseudo-measurement to account for the current motion of the aircraft. The proposed framework is tested, with real air traffic surveillance data, by predicting the future state information of the flights for real-time air traffic control applications. The results show that the proposed framework produces a greatly improved prediction accuracy compared to the two existing machine learning-based algorithms.Hong-Cheol ChoiChuhao DengInseok HwangIEEEarticleAircraft trajectory predictionterminal airspacemachine learningGaussian mixture modellong short-term memory networkresidual-mean interacting multiple modelsElectrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineeringTK1-9971ENIEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 151186-151197 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Aircraft trajectory prediction
terminal airspace
machine learning
Gaussian mixture model
long short-term memory network
residual-mean interacting multiple models
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
spellingShingle Aircraft trajectory prediction
terminal airspace
machine learning
Gaussian mixture model
long short-term memory network
residual-mean interacting multiple models
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
Hong-Cheol Choi
Chuhao Deng
Inseok Hwang
Hybrid Machine Learning and Estimation-Based Flight Trajectory Prediction in Terminal Airspace
description For air traffic management, trajectory prediction plays an important role as the predicted trajectory information is used in crucial tasks for the safety and efficiency of air traffic operations, such as conflict detection and resolution, scheduling, and sequencing. In this paper, we propose a framework for trajectory prediction in terminal airspace by combining a machine learning-based method and a physics-based estimation method. A trajectory prediction model based on machine learning is trained from historical surveillance data to represent the collective behavior of a set of flight trajectories, from which the data-driven prediction can be obtained as the expected future behavior of an incoming flight. A physics-based estimation algorithm called Residual-Mean Interacting Multiple Models (RM-IMM) then incorporates the machine learning prediction as a pseudo-measurement to account for the current motion of the aircraft. The proposed framework is tested, with real air traffic surveillance data, by predicting the future state information of the flights for real-time air traffic control applications. The results show that the proposed framework produces a greatly improved prediction accuracy compared to the two existing machine learning-based algorithms.
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author Hong-Cheol Choi
Chuhao Deng
Inseok Hwang
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Chuhao Deng
Inseok Hwang
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title Hybrid Machine Learning and Estimation-Based Flight Trajectory Prediction in Terminal Airspace
title_short Hybrid Machine Learning and Estimation-Based Flight Trajectory Prediction in Terminal Airspace
title_full Hybrid Machine Learning and Estimation-Based Flight Trajectory Prediction in Terminal Airspace
title_fullStr Hybrid Machine Learning and Estimation-Based Flight Trajectory Prediction in Terminal Airspace
title_full_unstemmed Hybrid Machine Learning and Estimation-Based Flight Trajectory Prediction in Terminal Airspace
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publisher IEEE
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/655ed8e18f544876a4bc4fe38b9b90ff
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