CATS: A Complete Air Traffic Simulator

Author

Alliot, J.M. ; Bosc, J.F. ; Durand, N. ; Maugis, L.

Author_Institution

Lab. Opt. Globale, Toulouse, France

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

26-30 Oct 1997

Firstpage

8.2

Abstract

The main ideas behind the design of CATS were to have a general purpose simulator able to be a stable basis for the development of other modules, representing different levels of Air Traffic Control and Air Traffic Management. The basic framework and hypothesis of the CATS simulator are introduced. Two approaches of automatic conflict resolution are detailed as examples. The first one deals with a centralized control system for high density areas and medium term (10 to 15 minutes ahead) control. The second one deals with an on board reactive short term (3 to 10 minutes ahead) automatic conflict solver. As both solvers use a conflict detection that is robust to uncertainties, a convex modeling of uncertainties is first introduced

Keywords

aerospace simulation; air traffic control; digital simulation; optimisation; pattern recognition; 10 to 15 min; 3 to 10 min; Air Traffic Control; Air Traffic Management; CATS; Complete Air Traffic Simulator; automatic conflict resolution; centralized control; conflict detection; convex modeling; on board reactive automatic conflict solver; Air traffic control; Aircraft navigation; Aircraft propulsion; Cats; Collision avoidance; Computational modeling; Statistics; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1997. 16th DASC., AIAA/IEEE

Conference_Location

Irvine, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4150-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1997.637271

Filename

637271