Publications
TCAS multiple threat encounter analysis
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The recent development of high-fidelity U.S. airspace encounter models at Lincoln Laboratory has motivated a simulation study of the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) multiple threat logic. We observed from archived radar data that while rarer than single-threat encounters, multiple threat encounters occur more frequently than originally expected...
Unmanned aircraft collision avoidance using partially observable Markov decision processes
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Before unmanned aircraft can fly safely in civil airspace, robust airborne collision avoidance systems must be developed. Instead of hand-crafting a collision avoidance algorithm for every combination of sensor and aircraft configuration, this project investigates the automatic generation of collision avoidance logic given models of aircraft dynamics, sensor performance, and...
Safety analysis of upgrading to TCAS Version 7.1 using the 2008 U.S. Correlated Encounter Model
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As a result of monitoring and modeling efforts by Eurocontrol and the FAA, two change proposals have been created to change the TCAS II V9.0 logic. The first, CP-112E, addresses the safety issues referred to as SA01. SA01 events have to do with the reversal logic contained in the TCAS...
Evaluation of TCAS II Version 7.1 using the FAA Fast-Time Encounter Generator model [volume 1]
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This report documents the Lincoln Laboratory evaluation of the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System II (TCAS II) logic version 7.1. TCAS II is an airborne collision avoidance system required since 30 December 1993 by the FAA on all air carrier aircraft with more than 30 passenger seats operating in...
Evaluation of TCAS II Version 7.1 using the FAA Fast-Time Encounter Generator model : appendix [volume 2]
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Appendix to Project Report ATC-346, Evaluation of TCAS II Version 7.1 Using the Fast-Time Encounter Generator Model, Volume 1.
Encounter models for unconventional aircraft version 1.0
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Airspace encounter models, covering close encounter situations that may occur after standard separation assurance has been lost, are a critical component in the safety assessment of aviation procedures and collision avoidance systems. Of particular relevance to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is the potential for encountering general aviation aircraft that are...
Airspace encounter models for conventional and unconventional aircraft
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Collision avoidance systems play an important role in the future of aviation safety. Before new technologies on board manned or unmanned aircraft are deployed, rigorous analysis using encounter simulations is required to prove system robustness. These simulations rely on models that accurately reflect the geometries and dynamics of aircraft encounters...
A comprehensive aircraft encounter model of the National Airspace System
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Collision avoidance systems play an important role in the future of aviation safety. Before new technologies on board manned or unmanned aircraft are deployed, rigorous analysis using encounter simulations is required to prove system robustness. These simulations rely on models that accurately reflect the geometries and dynamics of aircraft encounters...
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast in the Gulf of Mexico
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The Federal Aviation Administration is adopting Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) to provide surveillance in the National Airspace System (NAS). Aircraft separation services are currently provided by a system of en route and terminal radars, and the performance of these radars in part dictates the separation distance required between aircraft. ADS-B...
Uncorrelated encounter model of the National Airspace System version 1.0
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Summary
Airspace encounter models, covering close encounter situations that may occur after standard separation assurance has been lost, are a critical component in the safety assessment of aviation procedures and collision avoidance systems. Of particular relevance to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is the potential for encountering general aviation aircraft that are...