• DocumentCode
    487667
  • Title

    Air Traffic Control System - Can We Close the Control Loop?

  • Author

    Kornecki, Andrew J.

  • Author_Institution
    Computer Science Department, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Fl. 32014, USA
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    21-23 June 1989
  • Firstpage
    310
  • Lastpage
    311
  • Abstract
    The Air Traffic Control (ATC) system is analyzed from the control engineering viewpoint. Despite human operator in the loop ATC represents a conventional, multidimensional control system. The system observability and controllability can be analyzed. A control performance index representing safety, accuracy, and fuel consumption is introduced. We present the concept of using an expert system as an automatic controller including the outline of the ATC knowledge domain representation. The implementation of such expert controller is discussed.
  • Keywords
    Air traffic control; Automatic control; Control engineering; Control system analysis; Control systems; Controllability; Humans; Multidimensional systems; Observability; Performance analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Control Conference, 1989
  • Conference_Location
    Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4790207