Is the need for a new ATM operational concept a strategic necessity?

We must face the fact that conventional methods of air traffic management (ATM) that have served us well cannot continue to cope indefinitely. We need-therefore, to decide what the new operational concept should be and agree on the transition path. Air traffic management is the term we apply today to the totality of the activities involved in the handling of air traffic. The quest for a new concept led to what was first called "free flight," an idea that has, in the meantime, acquired some notoriety and is today more commonly referred to in Europe as "air/ground cooperative ATS." Simply put, the original free flight concept, stipulated that given the right on-board equipment (display of traffic information, conflict detection, and resolution tools) aircraft could navigate and avoid each other completely on their own, without the need for ATC. That a new ATM operational concept will be needed to take the industry further by the time traditional methods run out of potential is difficult to question. Equally clear is that the only new concept available is free flight a.k.a. air/ground cooperative ATS.     

宁波栎社机场进离场程序的优化

在考虑未来空域变化的基础上,以现行进离场程序为基础,本着简化程序,减少因程序原因引起不必要飞行冲突的原则,对现行进离场程序进行分离。从而达到减轻管制员的压力,降低飞行员的工作量,使飞行更加简便的目的。同时本项研究对其他有类似情况的机场也有一定的借鉴意义。     

多跑道航班进离场动态调度模型与算法

针对民航运输快速发展导致的航班延误频增现象,研究了多跑道航班进离场的动态调度问题。研究时段内航班的总延误成本最小和延误时间均衡为目标,综合考虑根据机型确定的航班进离场调度优先权和管制员负荷,建立多跑道航班进离场调度模型,利用遗传算法对模型进行仿真验证。仿真结果与先到先服务(FCFS)调度方式进行比较,采用遗传算法的航班进离场调度比FCFS的延误成本降低了45.07%,延误时间降低了37.90%,同时有效地均衡了航空公司的延误时间,保障了航空公司的公平性并提高了跑道系统容量,降低了管制员负荷。通过仿真验证了多跑道航班进离场动态调度策略具有较强的优势和可行性。     

Data link communication equipment approved by USAF for civil air traffic control

Operations within civil airspace will transition from traditional ground-based air traffic control (ATC) to air traffic management (ATM), a concept that requires aircrews and ground managers to share responsibility of aircraft separation assurance. Increased levels of information exchange will be necessary for this concept to work safely; therefore, air-ground communications will transition from voice to data link communications. The nature of data link communications procurement requires that avionics suppliers not only verify their products meet contractual performance requirements, but also demonstrate that their products are compatible with civil communication networks and ATC. In addition, the USAF needs to demonstrate that their crew-training program is adequate to maintain the required level of aircrew proficiency and equipment can be maintained for the required level of system performance, integrity, and interoperability with the civil environment. This paper outlines some of the certification issues facing the USAF with respect to the "Approval for Use" of data link equipment to be used for communication with ATC. It will also suggest a methodology for the avionics supplier and USAF to obtain the approvals required to ensure the installation of data link communications equipment on military aircraft will remain interoperable with civil ATC.     

Aeronautical information and meteorological data-link services

Aeronautical Information and Meteorological Management is a key component of the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) global Air Traffic Management (ATM) operational concept. This global ATM concept is central to the Joint Planning and Development Office's (JPDO) Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS), and underlies Europe's Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) initiative. The availability of timely, accurate, and relevant aeronautical and meteorological information in the cockpit is critical for safe conduct of flight and forms the basis for Air Traffic Management (ATM) decision-making. The data-link of aeronautical and meteorological information will facilitate the creation of a common picture of the airspace situation for all flight crews, air traffic controllers, and airline operations personnel. Change notifications, timely warnings and alerts of threats to safe and efficient flight conduct will be enabled by these services. The ultimate goal is to provide access to on-line, real-time, quality information, and weather services to any aviation user, anytime, anywhere. In this framework, we present operational services and environment of the Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) and Meteorological (MET) data-link services envisaged to be implemented over the next decade in both Europe and the USA. It reflects concepts and system performance requirements currently developed by a joint EUROCAE (WG-76) / RTCA (SC-206) Committee. The envisaged AIM data-link services are presented: aeronautical updates both in textual and graphical fore, synchronization of aeronautical data between on-board and ground systems (exchange of permanent aeronautical data regardless of AIRAC cycles). The MET data-link services are also developed: weather planning, near-term, and reactive decision services.     

对流天气空域阻塞概率与阻塞指数模型

管制员高估对流天气的影响,发布不必要的流控指令,会使得航班过度延误;管制员低估对流天气的影响,会造成工作负荷的激增,也会使得航班飞行安全风险增大。为了准确评估空域受天气影响程度,减少管制员高估和低估天气影响次数,建立了特定方向对流天气空域阻塞概率模型和航路交通阻塞指数模型。测试结果表明,特定方向对流天气空域阻塞概率模型,用于衡量对流天气下交通流在各个方向被阻塞概率,为管制员决策是否允许航空器沿特定方向在扇区绕飞提供参考有实际意义;对流天气航路交通阻塞指数模型,用于衡量对流天气下沿航路交通流被阻塞的概率,为管制员决策是否允许航空器沿航路穿越对流天气提供参考是可行的。访谈数据表明,90%的参访者同意在这两个参数可得时,他们获取对流天气影响交通态势感知所需要的时间确实有所减少。     

管制区短期空中交通流量管理的时隙-航线分配模型及算法

对管制区短期流量管理问题进行了研究,针对现有模型在约束条件和控制方法中的不足,不仅首次引入了流量控制事件的概念和相应的约束条件,而且在使用动态网络流理论建立了管制区短期空中交通流量管理模型过程中,还新增加了飞行高度层这一决策变量,使本文提出的时隙 航线分配模型与中国管制工作实际更加吻合。算例中采用中国华东空管中心实施的流量控制的真实数据,采用模拟退火遗传算法对其进行求解,求解结论直观、明确、可操作性强。仿真结果验证了模型及其求解方法的有效性和实用性。     

基于BP神经网络的飞机油耗与轨迹匹配模型研究

研究了基于与QAR记录相匹配的飞行轨迹数据建立的BP神经网络油耗模型,利用飞行轨迹数据输入模型求得油耗估算值,通过与QAR真实燃油数据对比,进行模拟分析.以某些航班的雷达记录数据为例进行油耗计算,结果表明本实验模型在燃油方面的估算误差不超过2％,满足空管方面对燃油消耗的计算.研究结果可以用于定量分析空管运行对民航节能减排的影响,从而在确保飞行安全、管制容量的前提下更好地兼顾绿色运行的要求,提升空中交通运行质量.     

中欧枢纽机场航班协同放行需求与对策研究

随着中欧之间航空运输量的不断增加,中欧几个主要枢纽机场之间互飞的航班量增长迅速,从欧洲空中交通流量管理系统发展的经验来看,协调枢纽机场航班放行时间可以显著地减少空域拥挤,减少航班延误,提高航班的正常性和可预测性.尝试从分析中国北京首都机场等几大枢纽机场中欧之间航班飞行流量、起降时刻出发,从减少中国枢纽机场拥挤的角度分析中欧协同放行的必要性,从航班和机场信息共享、协同放行机制等角度分析其可行性,以期望为进一步加强中欧航空合作打下基础.由于时间和数据限制,研究无法从欧洲空管角度做出类似的分析.     

TBO模式下终端区进场交通流优化模型与仿真分析

持续增长的交通需求量和日趋饱和的可用空域资源促使未来空中交通管理向基于航迹运行（TBO）的精细化管理模式转变。在TBO概念的基础上，依据目前繁忙机场终端区常见进场航线结构，提出了对应TBO模式下的截点直飞方式与融合点方式进场交通流优化模型，并以法国戴高乐机场终端区为例，构建了仿真运行环境。基于实际飞行计划与雷达记录轨迹模拟生成了航空器四维航迹，而后运用上述2种模型对进场交通流进行了优化，根据仿真结果对特定交通流参数展开了对比分析。研究结果表明，模型可通过航迹选择、时隙分配、顺序交换及动态间隔等方式有效化解终端区内潜在的航空器冲突并保持交通流安全高效运行，同时在一定程度上揭示了TBO模式下交通流的部分运行特性，为以四维航迹为核心的未来空中交通管理策略提供了理论支持。     

Strategic flight assignment approach based on multi-objective parallel evolution algorithm with dynamic migration interval

The continuous growth of air traffic has led to acute airspace congestion and severe delays, which threatens operation safety and cause enormous economic loss. Flight assignment is an economical and effective strategic plan to reduce the flight delay and airspace congestion by reasonably regulating the air traffic flow of China. However, it is a large-scale combinatorial optimization problem which is difficult to solve. In order to improve the quality of solutions, an effective multi-objective parallel evolution algorithm(MPEA) framework with dynamic migration interval strategy is presented in this work. Firstly, multiple evolution populations are constructed to solve the problem simultaneously to enhance the optimization capability. Then a new strategy is proposed to dynamically change the migration interval among different evolution populations to improve the efficiency of the cooperation of populations. Finally, the cooperative co-evolution(CC) algorithm combined with non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II(NSGA-II) is introduced for each population. Empirical studies using the real air traffic data of the Chinese air route network and daily flight plans show that our method outperforms the existing approaches, multiobjective genetic algorithm(MOGA), multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition(MOEA/D), CC-based multi-objective algorithm(CCMA) as well as other two MPEAs with different migration interval strategies.     

我院建成航空卫星通信实验地球站

在世界范围内实现新的通信、导航和监视／空中交通管理，能改善空中交通服务，减少运营费用和提高飞行安全等。中国民航学院建成航空卫星移动通信实验地球站，为研究新航行系统、试验自动相关监视等，创造了良好条件     

The future functionalities of the flight management system

The availability of new Communication, Navigation and Surveillance technologies provides the basis to move towards advanced Air Traffic Management (ATM) concepts. Some of these concepts will impact the airborne Flight Management System (FMS) by introducing new functions with different flight time horizons. In this discussion, two main flight time horizon are defined:The tactical flight time horizon is between 30s and 10mn ahead of the aircraft current position. Airborne separation from traffic, terrain and adverse weather will be introduced in this time horizon as a tactical function.The strategic flight time horizon is more than 10mn ahead of the aircraft current position. Weather datafusion, enroute inflight replanning assistance and air-ground trajectory negotiation will be introduced in this time horizon as strategic functions.The organisation of the associated future flight management system can be synthesised in the scheme (figure 1). The data to be displayed to the pilot for his flight awareness are functions of the flight phase, the type of airspace and of the type of situation encountered.Globally these data can be shared as functions of their flight time horizons, and their topic, as it is described in the table below. In the cells are indicated the flight objects that these data address.SEXTANT as a major avionics manufacturer is leading research and development activities in the area of ATM related airborne flight management functions. Their existing or expected findings are described in this article.     

基于一种免疫遗传算法的自由飞行冲突解脱

自由飞行是解决航线拥挤的有效方法,但同时增加了空中交通管理的难度.免疫遗传算法是根据生物免疫原理提出的改进遗传算法,该算法主要体现了生物免疫机制中的免疫操作,与遗传算法相比,能较好地防治"早熟"和减少参数选取对结果的影响,优化效率高.将一种免疫遗传算法应用于自由飞行的冲突解脱问题,与标准遗传算法进行比较,取得了较好的优化效果.     

民用飞机智能飞行技术综述

人工智能已成为民用飞机技术创新发展与竞争的新赛道。在面向民用飞机全生命周期的多种人工智能融合应用中,智能飞行致力于改变传统飞行驾驶模式,重构未来飞行的人机交互模式与空中交通管理架构,成为行业特征最为显著、最具备颠覆性变革的方向,是民用飞机智能化竞争的新焦点。阐述了智能飞行理念,规划辅助智能、增强智能、完全智能三阶段实施路线,以25部、23部、轻型运动类飞机为对象,制定智能飞行推进路线,构建技术体系,提炼影响智能飞行在应用落地过程中需要解决的可信适航与人为因素两项关键应用基础技术,分享对于智能飞行的思考。     

The Digital Information Facility

The acceptance and implementation of advanced digital avionics and flight control systems is dependent on the successful integration of these systems into the current and future National Airspace System (NAS). This paper describes a digital avionics systems research facility known as the Digital Information Facility (DIF) developed to provide researchers with the ground systems and air-to-ground interfaces needed to conduct and document experiments involving a mix of new technologies within the existing NAS infrastructure. The DIF supports four NAS functions: Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC), Flight Information Services (FIS), Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) navigation, and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). The DIF also includes the capability to record pilot and air traffic management interactions and document research participant observations. The DIF capability includes connectivity to flight test and simulated aircraft in a fully immersive Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) environment.     

Improved tracking with mode-S data-linked velocity measurements

The use of downlinked airspeed and magnetic heading data to enhance tracking in mode-S equipped air traffic control (ATC) systems is examined. A tracker performing satisfactorily during straight line flight as well as during steep maneuvers is discussed. The filter copes easily with longitudinally accelerating targets and is suitable for tracking low-velocity targets like helicopters in all phases of flight. The filter assumes that the target flies in a circular path from sample to sample, which results in nonlinear system equations. The filter is suitable for implementation in three-dimensional tracking systems, particularly on the vertical axis, where target velocities are usually small     

加强机载交通和地形避撞告警功能提高自治飞行能力

从飞机的安全间隔保障和空中避撞告警，以及飞机的地形避撞和近地警告两个问题的现有手段和正在发展中的某些新概念、新技术出发，说明交通和地形信息资源的开发利用，有助于更好地增强机上信息环境，发挥交通和避撞的告警和显示功能，提高自治飞行（ＡｕｔｏｎｏｍｏｕｓＦｌｉｇｈｔ）能力；在未来空域环境中过渡到飞机避撞责任由驾驶员和管制员双方分担。重点介绍机载间隔保障系统（ＡＳＡＳ）概念，其所用的广播式自动相关监视（ＡＤＳ－Ｂ）和驾驶舱交通信息显示（ＣＤＴＩ）技术，此外也介绍预测型近地警告和利用地形数据库的仿前视地形复现技术。     

数据链人机界面设计及仿真

随着现代空中交通控制技术的发展,数据链的应用逐渐显得更为重要。然而,数据链应用的有效性是个重要问题。为了满足飞行任务实时性的要求,必须考虑人机界面,特别在CPDLC(Controller Pilot Data Link Communication)通信中。本文采用面向任务的设计思想,对指令进行分类整理,通过综合人机界面显示单元的设计来实现数据链(Data link)人机界面的仿真设计。