Intent-Based Aircraft Maneuver Identification

• Maneuver identification could provide better situational awareness to air traffic controllers

• Any complex aircraft maneuvers can be modeled as a sequence of simple motions (or intents).

  • e.g. Path Stretch: Go-to-current WP => Go-to-auxiliary WP => Return to Flight Plan

• Proposed Algorithm

  • Hybrid Estimation: taking flight track and flight plan as inputs, estimate the continuous states (e.g., position, speed, and heading of an aircraft) and the discrete states (or flight modes, e.g., straight mode or turning mode)

• Illustrative Example: Path stretch

Related Publication

• K. Kim and I. Hwang, “Intent-Based Detection and Characterization of Aircraft Maneuvers in En Route Airspace,” AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2018), pp. 72-91.