Sun, Oct 31, 2010
New Conflict Resolutions To Be More Comprehensive Than Those
Currently Available
NASA has selected Sensis Corporation for the NASA Research
Announcement (NRA) Development of Ground-based Surface Conflict
Detection and Resolution (CD&R) Algorithms. Sensis will develop
advanced CD&R algorithms for integration into NASA surface
simulation environments, expanding NASA's capability to simulate
airport surface conflicts. The new CD&R algorithms will produce
complex resolution scenarios to further reduce runway
incursions.
The Sensis-developed algorithms will address a number of
incursion scenarios not incorporated into conflict detection and
resolution capabilities available today, including runway/taxiway
intersections, encroachments into active runways, merging and
following aircraft and departure queues. Algorithms will reflect
uncertainties in surveillance data, navigational errors, variation
in pilot and controller behavior, off-nominal conditions and mixed
aircraft equipage to provide complex conflict resolutions to the
controller and appropriately equipped aircraft – resolutions
that will factor-in other aircraft and vehicle activity on the
airport surface to minimally impact surface efficiency.
"Sensis has extensive experience in developing and fielding
conflict detection and alerting algorithms for use at the world's
busiest airports and a strong history of airport surface efficiency
modeling and simulation," said Ken Kaminski, vice president of
Sensis Corporation's Advanced Development group. "For this project,
we are examining airport surface conflicts, alerting and
resolutions in terms of airport-wide implications to ensure not
only safe operations, but resolution strategies that will minimally
impact the efficiency of the entire airport. Additionally, these
algorithms will be taking into account current and near-term
avionics, surveillance and operational concepts, making them a
potential bridge to NextGen surface CD&R."
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