Airports

NASA ULI Program

Real-time in-flight safety monitoring framework to enhance controllers' situational awareness and prevent fatal accidents

Research

  • Integrate knowledge among multiple domains within the airspace system
  • Explore complex system-of systems with human autonomy interaction
  • Improve safety of air travel through multi-system simulations
  • Develop large-scale data analytics and simulation methods to enhance real-time system-of-systems risk management

Education

  • Multi-level education integration: K-12 Education Outreach program, Undergraduate Research Initiative and graduate student training
  • Interaction with actual air traffic management program
  • Demonstration and data collection with simulator facilities
  • Preparation of future engineers in aviation
Human-in-the-loop air traffic controller simulator.

Community impact

  • Development of simulation test-bed to be used for future NextGen research
  • External advisory board that consists of various experts from industry, government agencies and academia
  • Contribution to safety and efficiency of future airspace systems

2023

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    Predicting separation errors of air traffic controllers through integrated sequence analysis of multimodal behaviour indicators
    Ruoxin Xiong , Yanyu Wang , Pingbo Tang , Nancy J Cooke , Sarah V Ligda , Christopher S Lieber , and Yongming Liu
    Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2023

2023

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    Fast and reliable map matching from large-scale noisy positioning records
    Yanyu Wang , Ruoxin Xiong , Pingbo Tang , and Yongming Liu
    Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2023
  • Yanyu Wang, Ruoxin Xiong, Pingbo Tang, Enhancing the safety, sustainability, and efficiency of airport operations through data-driven trajectory-based simulation and optimization, 2024 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (accepted).