Fast-Time NAS Simulation System for Analysis of Advanced ATM Concepts

Sweet, Douglas; Manikonda, Vikram; Aronson, Jesse; Roth, Karlin R.; Blake, Matthew

doi:10.2514/6.2002-4593

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“…The paper [3] includes human in the loop with the intent of moving from sector to global implications to improve efficiency. The paper [4] identifies possible areas to investigate for improvement of efficiency,. The paper [5] proposed a conflict resolution algorithm and tested it using real data.…”

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An initial examination for verifying separation algorithms by simulation

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Neogi

Herencia-Zapana

2012

2012 IEEE/AIAA 31st Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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An open question in algorithms for aircraft is what can be validated by simulation where the simulation shows that the probability of undesirable events is below some given level at some confidence level. The problem is including enough realism to be convincing while retaining enough efficiency to run the large number of trials needed for high confidence. The paper first proposes a goal based on the number of flights per year in several regions. The paper examines the probabilistic interpretation of this goal and computes the number of trials needed to establish it at an equivalent confidence level. Since any simulation is likely to consider the algorithms for only one type of event and there are several types of events, the paper examines under what conditions this separate consideration is valid. This paper is an initial effort, and as such, it considers separation maneuvers, which are elementary but include numerous aspects of aircraft behavior. The scenario includes decisions under uncertainty since the position of each aircraft is only known to the other by broadcasting where GPS believes each aircraft to be (ADS-B). Each aircraft operates under feedback control with perturbations. It is shown that a scenario three or four orders of magnitude more complex is feasible. The question of what can be validated by simulation remains open, but there is reason to be optimistic

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confidence: 99%

An initial examination for verifying separation algorithms by simulation

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Neogi

Herencia-Zapana

2012

2012 IEEE/AIAA 31st Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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“…It is an agent-based architecture with the intent of modeling the first-order effects of future concepts. Its emphasized American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics use is more on answering questions of breadth rather than depth; [25][26][27] however, ACES enabled the detailed development of separation assurance algorithms. 28 Figure 9 illustrates ACES inputs and outputs.…”

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A Perspective on NASA Ames Air Traffic Management Research

Schroeder

2009

9th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO)

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This paper describes past and present air-traffic-management research at NASA Ames Research Center. The descriptions emerge from the perspective of a technical manager who supervised the majority of this research for the last four years. Past research contributions built a foundation for calculating accurate flight trajectories to enable efficient airspace management in time. That foundation led to two predominant research activities that continue to this day -one in automatically separating aircraft and the other in optimizing traffic flows. Today's national airspace uses many of the applications resulting from research at Ames. These applications include the nationwide deployment of the Traffic Management Advisor, new procedures enabling continuous descent arrivals, cooperation with industry to permit more direct flights to downstream waypoints, a surface management system in use by two cargo carriers, and software to evaluate how well flights conform to national traffic management initiatives. The paper concludes with suggestions for prioritized research in the upcoming years. These priorities include: enabling more firstlook operational evaluations, improving conflict detection and resolution for climbing or descending aircraft, and focusing additional attention on the underpinning safety critical items such as a reliable datalink.

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“…In [17] the ATC agent model is analysed in order to identify its roles and responsibilities in future ATM systems. Another development of functional architecture airspace for an Airspace Concept Evaluation System (ACES) is presented in [16]. In a later work an agent-oriented model of the CNS/ATM infrastructure of ACES was proposed in [31].…”

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“…Several attempts for developing simulation and design analysis tools have been proposed [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Results of these studies show that it will be necessary more detailed and structured conceptual models to give support to analytical simulation tools to address the paradigm shift in the ATM procedures.…”

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