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Kokpit otomasyonu tabanlı 4D rota planlaması

2015
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Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gökhan İnalhan

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Considering the transformation in roles of existing air traffic management technologies, future flight operations and flight deck systems will need additional avionics and operational procedures that involve adaptive algorithms and advanced decision support tools. The first part of the thesis presents novel visual flight deck decision support tools and interfaces utilizing next generation synthetic vision and augmented reality based visualisation technologies in order to meet the requirements of the future flight operations defined in NextGen and SESAR 2020+ visions. These avionics are envisioned to aid pilots for conducting their new in-flight tasks such as; collaborative tactical planning with intent negotiation/sharing; fully understanding/analysing/interpreting solution with their alternatives and proposing modification on the solution subject to negotiation; and aware of required response, execute it or allow collision avoidance module to perform its automated response. Visual Decision Support Tools allow the flight crew to interact with new autonomous systems and provide with visual understanding on the evolving flight operation by fusing all tactical level data and visualising them. In this work, two groups of display structure have been proposed. A split head-down Synthetic Vision screen pair aims to support the pilots in managing both low level and high level tactical tasks with fully understanding the situation in 4D. Synthetic Vision Display (SVD) side provides the pilots synthetic vision and also incorporates required additional guidance and limited operational information. 4D Operational Display (4DOD) provides higher level operational information giving building enhanced understanding on the states of the operation and results of any modification on processing flight intent. Haptic interfaces allow the flight crew to change demonstrated detail levels in both 2D+time and 3D+time. The other display, which is Head-Up-Display (HUD), provides pilot to efficiently operate flight operation by eliminating the need of looking to head-down screen; and aims to present all essential flight information in the pilot's forward field through augmented reality implementations. For hardware integration and experimental purposes, an integrated testbed including full replica B737-800 Flight Deck Testbed and ATM Testbed has been modified as enabling operational tests and validations of these new tools. The main purpose of this study is to provide a theoretical framework for tactical 4D-trajectory planning and conflict resolution of an aircraft equipped with novel automation tools. The proposed 4D-trajectory-planning method uses recent algorithmic advances in both probabilistic and deterministic methods to fully benefit from both approaches. We have constructed an aircraft performance model based on BADA 4 with high-level hybrid flight template automatons and low-level flight maneuver automatons. This multi-modal flight trajectory approach is utilized to generate cost-efficient local trajectory segments instead of solving complex trajectory-generation problems globally. The proposed sampling-based trajectory planning algorithm spatially explores the airspace and provides proper separation through local trajectory segments and guarantees asymptotic optimality under certain conditions. Moreover, we have integrated the cross-entropy method, which transforms the sampling problem into a stochastic optimization problem, rapidly converges on the minimum cost trajectory sequence by utilizing available flight plans, and reduces the amount of sampling. The integration of the proposed strategies lets us solve challenging, real-time in-tactical 4D-trajectory planning problems within the current and the envisioned future realm of air traffic management systems.

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Dr. Mevlüt Uzun

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Mevlüt Uzun (Master Thesis). Kokpit otomasyonu tabanlı 4D rota planlaması, 2015, Istanbul Technical University.

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