Print Email Facebook Twitter Simulating the Risk of Bird Strikes Title Simulating the Risk of Bird Strikes Author Metz, I.C. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Ellerbroek, Joost (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Muhlhausen, Thorsten (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)) Kügler, D. (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)) Hoekstra, J.M. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Date 2017 Abstract This paper presents a fast-time simulation environment for assessing the risk of bird strikes in aviation. An existing air traffic simulator was enhanced in order to simulate air and bird traffic simultaneously and to recognize collisions between birds and aircraft. Furthermore, a method was developed to generate bird movement information from different radar sources. The resulting set-up represents the first simulation environment to perform fast-time simulations including air traffic and bird movements. A verification with real data revealed that approximately thrice as many bird strikes occur in the simulation as in reality. When considering bird reaction to approaching aircraft, which is not covered in the simulation as well as unreported strikes, this implies an adequate result. For this reason, the simulator can serve as valuable tool to analyse the risk of bird strikes and to evaluate new Air Traffic Management concepts to reduce the number of these events. Subject ADS-BMode-Saviation weatherwind modelingaircraft sensor networkgas particle model To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e406b1c3-5dac-4e17-ad7a-cccbb3837868 Source Proceedings of the Seventh SESAR Innovation Days, 28th – 30th November 2017: Belgrade, Serbia Event 7th SESAR Innovation Days, 2017-11-28 → 2017-11-30, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 I.C. Metz, Joost Ellerbroek, Thorsten Muhlhausen, D. Kügler, J.M. Hoekstra Files PDF SIDs_2017_Metz_BirdStrike.pdf 1.32 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e406b1c3-5dac-4e17-ad7a-cccbb3837868/datastream/OBJ/view