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Probabilistic Model for Air Traffic Controller Sequencing Strategy (항공교통관제사의 항공기 합류순서결정에 대한 확률적 예측모형 개발)

  • Kim, Minji;Hong, Sungkwon;Lee, Keumjin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.8-14
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    • 2014
  • Arrival management is a tool which provides efficient flow of traffic and reduces ATC workload by determining aircraft's sequence and schedules while they are in cruise phase. As a decision support tool, arrival management should advise on air traffic control service based on the understanding of human factor of its user, air traffic controller. This paper proposed a prediction model for air traffic controller sequencing strategy by analyzing the historical trajectory data. Statistical analysis is used to find how air traffic controller decides the sequence of aircraft based on the speed difference and the airspace entering time difference of aircraft. Logistic regression was applied for the proposed model and its performance was demonstrated through the comparison of the real operational data.

Study on Safe Set and Maneuverability Envelope Protection during Arresting Landing

  • Liu, Zidong;Zhan, Hao;Wang, Shuang
    • International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.73-78
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    • 2015
  • According to the characteristic of carrier-based aircraft, the method of solving safe set during arresting landing is discussed in this paper based on optimal control and invariant set theory. The safe sets of carrier aircraft are evaluated in different states on the characteristic of longitudinal augmented system by using the level set method. Then, the influence on the boundary of safe set under various factors is analyzed. At last, the maneuverability envelope protection is established based on the corresponding theory, and the validity of the system is verified through simulation. The results demonstrate preliminarily that: compared with mass and thrust, the elevator is the greatest influence factor for the boundary of safe set; the dynamic trajectory of carrier-based aircraft can be located at the interior of safe set effectively with the maneuverability envelope protection.

Extracting Patterns of Airport Approach Using Gaussian Mixture Models and Analyzing the Overshoot Probabilities (가우시안 혼합모델을 이용한 공항 접근 패턴 추출 및 패턴 별 과이탈 확률 분석)

  • Jaeyoung Ryu;Seong-Min Han;Hak-Tae Lee
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.888-896
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    • 2023
  • When an aircraft is landing, it is expected that the aircraft will follow a specified approach procedure and then land at the airport. However, depending on the airport situation, neighbouring aircraft or the instructions of the air traffic controller, there can be a deviation from the specified approach. Detecting aircraft approach patterns is necessary for traffic flow and flight safety, and this paper suggests clustering techniques to identify aircraft patterns in the approach segment. The Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), one of the machine learning techniques, is used to cluster the trajectories of aircraft, and ADS-B data from aircraft landing at the Gimhae airport in 2019 are used. The aircraft trajectories are clustered on the plane, and a total of 86 approach trajectory patterns are extracted using the centroid value of each cluster. Considering the correlation between the approach procedure pattern and overshoots, the distribution of overshoots is calculated.

Aircraft Measurement of SO$_2$, NO$_{x}$ over Yellow Sea Area (항공기를 이용한 서해안에서의 SO$_2$ 및 NO$_{x}$의 측정)

  • 김병곤;차준석;한진석;박일수;김정수;나진균;최덕일;안준영;강창국
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.361-369
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    • 1997
  • In order to investigate the abundance and transboundary fluxes of air pollutants over the Yellow Sea, airborne measurements were made aboard the SF-600 aircraft (Pan-Asia Engineering) in March, 1996. The data presented in this paper are preliminary results and airborne experiment will be carried out until 1999. The vertical profile of relevant meteorological parameters such as temperature, water vapor, wind direction and wind speed were also observed at Taean. Mixing layer height was about 1000~1100m during the flights. The SO$_2$ and NO$_{x}$ concentrations were 3~6 ppb and 5~7 ppb below 1000 m, within 1 ppb and 3~5 ppb at 1000~2000m, respectively. Backward trajectory analyses were also carried out. A mathematical method by Lelieveld et al.(1989) was used to estimate the flux of air pollutants through the planetary boundary layer of Yellow Sea area. Transboundary fluxes were calculated using the measurement results with respect to the pollutants concentration, depth of the planetary boundary layer, wind speed and wind direction. The estimated transboundary flux of SO$_2$through the western boundary of Korea was about 39~42 tons/hour.r.

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Store Separation Analysis of a Fighter Aircraft's External Fuel Tank

  • Cho, Hwan-Kee;Kang, Chi-Hang;Jang, Young-Il;Lee, Sang-Hyun;Kim, Kwang-Yeon
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.345-350
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    • 2010
  • The repetitive vibrating action of an aerodynamic load causes an external fuel tank's horizontal fin to experience a shorter life cycle than its originally predicted one. Store separation analysis is needed to redesign the fin of an external fuel tank. In this research, free-drop tests were conducted using 15% scaled models in a subsonic wind tunnel in order to analyze the store separation characteristics of an external fuel tank. The store separation trajectory based on grid tests was also obtained to verify the results of the free-drop tests. The results acquired from the free-drop tests correlated well with the grid tests in regards to the trajectories and behavior of the stores separated from the aircraft. This agreement was especially noted in the early stages of the store separation.

A Study on the Algorithm for Automatic Generation of Optimal Waypoint with Terrain Avoidance (지형 회피를 위한 최적 경로점 자동 생성 알고리듬 연구)

  • Park, Jung-Jin;Park, Sang-Hyuk;Ryoo, Chang-Kyung;Shin, Sung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.11
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    • pp.1104-1111
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    • 2009
  • In the low altitude, mission of the aircraft is restricted by a variety of threats such as anti-air missiles and terrain obstacles. Especially, aircraft have always a risk of ground collision near terrain. In this study, to effectively solve this problem, we developed the flight path generation algorithm that is considered the terrain avoidance. In this flight path generation algorithm, waypoints that should be passed by the UAV are selected first. The waypoints are located in the middle of the terrain obstacles. Then, physically meaningful waypoints sets are classified by Dijkstra algorithm. The optimal waypoint guidance law based on the optimal control theory is applied to produce trajectory candidates. And finally the minimum control energy trajectory is determined.

Airspeed Estimation Through Integration of ADS-B, Wind, and Topology Data (ADS-B, 기상, 지형 데이터의 통합을 통한 대기속도 추정)

  • Kim, Hyo-Jung;Park, Bae-Seon;Ryoo, Chang-Kyung;Lee, Hak-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.67-74
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    • 2022
  • To analyze the motion of aircraft through computing the dynamics equations, true airspeed is essential for obtaining aerodynamic loads. Although the airspeed is measured by on-board instruments such as pitot tubes, measurement data are difficult to obtain for commercial flights because they include sensitive data about the airline operations. One of the commonly available trajectory data, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast data, provide aircraft's speed in the form of ground speed. The ground speed is a vector sum of the local wind velocity and the true airspeed. This paper present a method to estimate true airspeed by combining the trajectory, meteorological, and topology data available to the public. To integrate each data, we first matched the coordinate system and then unified the altitude reference to the mean sea level. We calculated the wind vector for all trajectory points by interpolating from the lower resolution grid of the meteorological data. Finally, we calculate the true airspeed from the ground speed and the wind vector. These processes were applied to several sample trajectories with corresponding meteorological data and the topology data, and the estimated true airspeeds are presented.

Effects of Time-Varying Mass on the Dynamic Behavior of a Descending Parachute System (질량 감소가 낙하산 시스템의 하강 고도 변화에 미치는 효과)

  • Jang, Woo-Young;Baek, Sang-Tae;Myong, Rho-Shin;Jin, Yeon-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.281-289
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    • 2016
  • Accurate prediction of the trajectory and time of a time-varying mass parachute system remains essential in the mission requiring a precision airdrop to the ground. In this study, we investigate the altitude-varying behavior of a cross-type parachute system designed to deliver a time-varying mass object like flare. The dynamics of the descending parachute system was analyzed based on the Runge-Kutta method of the ordinary differential system. The drag coefficients of the cross-type parachute and flare were calculated by a CFD code based on the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation. Finally, by using a simplified gust wind model in troposphere, the combined effects of gust wind and time-varying mass were examined in detail.

Development of Portable Ground Control System for Operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (무인항공기 운용을 위한 이동형 지상제어 시스템 개발)

  • Lee, Jang-Ho;Ryu, Hyeok;Kim, Jae-Eun;Ahn, Iee-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.32 no.10
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    • pp.127-133
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    • 2004
  • This paper described development of the portable ground control system(PGCS) for unmanned aerial vehicle. In the design of GCS, it upload mission planning that aircraft has to perform and has to receive position, attitude, state, navigation information all about the aircraft. Aircraft states and trajectory are displayed using this system on line. The PGCS is composed of commercial notebook computer, RF modem for communication between aircraft and PGCS, input/output board, remote control receiver, switches and lamps. Performance of this system is verified by flight test of small unmanned aerial vehicle.