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Data-Driven Probabilistic Methodology for Aircraft Conflict Detection Under Wind Uncertainty
Optimization and Control · Submitted 2 Jul 2024
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The authors' main claim In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed conflict detection method, numerical experiments are conducted through an optimal control based aircraft trajectory planner for a given wind forecast represented by an ensemble prediction system.
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Assuming the availability of a reliable aircraft trajectory planner, this paper presents a probabilistic methodology to detect conflicts between aircraft, in the cruise phase of the flight, in the presence of wind prediction uncertainties quantified by ensemble weather forecasts, which are regarded as realizations of correlated random processes and employed to derive the eastward and northward components of the wind velocity. First, the Karhunen-Lo`eve expansion is used to obtain a series expansion of the wind components in terms of a set of uncorrelated random variables and deterministic coefficients. Then, the uncertainty induced by these uncorrelated random variables in the outputs of the aircraft trajectory planner is quantified by means of the arbitrary polynomial chaos technique. Finally, the probability density function of the great circle distance between each pair of aircraft is derived from the polynomial expansions using a Gaussian kernel density estimator and employed to estimate the probability of conflict. The arbitrary polynomial chaos technique allows the effects of uncertainties in complex nonlinear dynamical system, such as those underlying aircraft trajectory planners, to be quantified with high computational efficiency, only requiring the existence of a finite number of statistical moments of the random variables of the Karhunen-Lo`eve expansion, while avoiding any assumption on their probability distributions. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed conflict detection method, numerical experiments are conducted through an optimal control based aircraft trajectory planner for a given wind forecast represented by an ensemble prediction system.
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| s0 | Assuming the availability of a reliable aircraft trajectory planner, this paper presents a probabilistic methodology to detect conflicts between aircraft, in the cruise phase of the flight, in the presence of wind prediction uncertainties quantified by ensemble weather forecasts, which are regarded as realizations of correlated random processes and employed to derive the eastward and northward components of the wind velocity. | contribution 1.00 | 0.76 | 0.14 | asserted 0.99 |
| s1 | First, the Karhunen-Lo`eve expansion is used to obtain a series expansion of the wind components in terms of a set of uncorrelated random variables and deterministic coefficients. | method 1.00 | 0.86 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | Then, the uncertainty induced by these uncorrelated random variables in the outputs of the aircraft trajectory planner is quantified by means of the arbitrary polynomial chaos technique. | method 1.00 | 0.88 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | Finally, the probability density function of the great circle distance between each pair of aircraft is derived from the polynomial expansions using a Gaussian kernel density estimator and employed to estimate the probability of conflict. | method 0.99 | 0.91 | 0.11 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | The arbitrary polynomial chaos technique allows the effects of uncertainties in complex nonlinear dynamical system, such as those underlying aircraft trajectory planners, to be quantified with high computational efficiency, only requiring the existence of a finite number of statistical moments of the random variables of the Karhunen-Lo`eve expansion, while avoiding any assumption on their probability distributions. | method 0.57 | 0.27 | 0.11 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed conflict detection method, numerical experiments are conducted through an optimal control based aircraft trajectory planner for a given wind forecast represented by an ensemble prediction system. | method 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.08 | asserted 0.99 |
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Assuming the availability of a reliable aircraft trajectory planner, this paper presents a probabilistic methodology to detect conflicts between aircraft, in the cruise phase of the flight, in the presence of wind prediction uncertainties quantified by ensemble weather forecasts, which are regarded as realizations of correlated random processes and employed to derive the eastward and northward components of the wind velocity. First, the Karhunen-Lo`eve expansion is used to obtain a series expansion of the wind components in terms of a set of uncorrelated random variables and deterministic coefficients. Then, the uncertainty induced by these uncorrelated random variables in the outputs of the aircraft trajectory planner is quantified by means of the arbitrary polynomial chaos technique. Finally, the probability density function of the great circle distance between each pair of aircraft is derived from the polynomial expansions using a Gaussian kernel density estimator and employed to estimate the probability of conflict. The arbitrary polynomial chaos technique allows the effects of uncertainties in complex nonlinear dynamical system, such as those underlying aircraft trajectory planners, to be quantified with high computational efficiency, only requiring the existence of a finite number of statistical moments of the random variables of the Karhunen-Lo`eve expansion, while avoiding any assumption on their probability distributions. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed conflict detection method, numerical experiments are conducted through an optimal control based aircraft trajectory planner for a given wind forecast represented by an ensemble prediction system.
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