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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering

ISSN 2095-9184

Front. Inform. Technol. Electron. Eng    2018, Vol. 19 Issue (7) : 905-916    https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1700224
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An algorithm for trajectory prediction of flight plan based on relative motion between positions
Yi LIN1,2(), Jian-wei ZHANG1,2, Hong LIU1,2()
1. National Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science on Synthetic Vision, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
2. National Key Laboratory of Air Traffic Control Automation System Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Abstract

Traditional methods for plan path prediction have low accuracy and stability. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for plan path prediction based on relative motion between positions (RMBP) by mining historical flight trajectories. A probability statistical model is introduced to model the stochastic factors during the whole flight process. The model object is the sequence of velocity vectors in the three-dimensional Earth space. First, we model the moving trend of aircraft including the speed (constant, acceleration, or deceleration), yaw (left, right, or straight), and pitch (climb, descent, or cruise) using a hidden Markov model (HMM) under the restrictions of aircraft performance parameters. Then, several Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) are used to describe the conditional distribution of each moving trend. Once the models are built, machine learning algorithms are applied to obtain the optimal parameters of the model from the historical training data. After completing the learning process, the velocity vector sequence of the flight is predicted by the proposed model under the Bayesian framework, so that we can use kinematic equations, depending on the moving patterns, to calculate the flight position at every radar acquisition cycle. To obtain higher prediction accuracy, a uniform interpolation method is used to correct the predicted position each second. Finally, a plan trajectory is concatenated by the predicted discrete points. Results of simulations with collected data demonstrate that this approach not only fulfils the goals of traditional methods, such as the prediction of fly-over time and altitude of waypoints along the planned route, but also can be used to plan a complete path for an aircraft with high accuracy. Experiments are conducted to demonstrate the superiority of this approach to some existing methods.

Keywords Velocity vector      Hidden Markov model      Gaussian mixture model      Machine learning      Plan path prediction      Relative motion between positions (RMBP)     
Corresponding Author(s): Yi LIN,Hong LIU   
Issue Date: 28 September 2018
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Yi LIN,Jian-wei ZHANG,Hong LIU. An algorithm for trajectory prediction of flight plan based on relative motion between positions[J]. Front. Inform. Technol. Electron. Eng, 2018, 19(7): 905-916.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fitee/EN/Y2018/V19/I7/905
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