Print Email Facebook Twitter A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating Aircraft Deviations from Planned Routes Title A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating Aircraft Deviations from Planned Routes Author Sakyi-Gyinae, Master (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering; TU Delft Control & Simulation) Contributor Ellerbroek, J. (mentor) Hoekstra, J.M. (mentor) Rudnyk, I. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Aerospace Engineering Date 2019-10-03 Abstract With the increasing trend in air traffic demand and evidence of large deviations from filed flight plans, airspace capacity is not being optimally utilized. In order to improve air traffic flow and capacity management systems, so that air traffic control operators can handle more aircraft safely, air traffic predictability needs to be improved. Quantitatively, this means reducing the measure of spread of aircraft deviations from filed flight plans. In this thesis, a long short term memory (LSTM) network is proposed to predict trajectories in Maastricht upper airspace in a data-driven approach, using statistical aircraft deviation related features. The results show that the LSTM model has a lower prediction error at predicting trajectories than the current model used by the network manager. The LSTM model finally demonstrates its application within air traffic demand optimization where the LSTM based sector load predictions provide a more accurate estimation than the filed flight plan based predicted occupancy count. Subject Machine learningTrajectory PredictionAircraft DeviationsNeural NetworkLSTMAirspace Demand Optimalizationfeature designFeature selectionfeature selection method To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:274b4386-539a-4193-80e9-f120c8d4832e Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Master Sakyi-Gyinae Files PDF Final_thesis.pdf 2.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:274b4386-539a-4193-80e9-f120c8d4832e/datastream/OBJ/view