Human Control of Air Traffic Trajectory Optimizer

O. D. N. Turnbull; A. G. Richards

doi:10.1109/TITS.2017.2712637

Human Control of Air Traffic Trajectory Optimizer

O. D. N. Turnbull, A. G. Richards^*

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Abstract

Supervisory constraints are developed for a trajectory optimizer for air traffic. By choosing to apply combinations of these constraints, a human controller can exercise intuitive influence over how conflicts between aircraft are resolved. This offers a compromise between the flexibility of an automated optimizer and the insight of a human controller. Requirements, such as the sense of resolution, - i.e., which aircraft goes first or over - are encoded as constraints on a mixed-integer linear program. Examples verify that the constraints work as expected and that the computation times required are reasonable.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1091-1099
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Volume	19
Issue number	4
Early online date	29 Jun 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2017.2712637
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2018

Keywords

Air traffic control
human factors
trajectory optimization

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Turnbull, O. D. N., & Richards, A. G. (2018). Human Control of Air Traffic Trajectory Optimizer. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19(4), 1091-1099. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2017.2712637

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