An algorithm, for aircraft that can exchange data with each other, predicts trajectories of nearby flights to avoid air traffic accidents

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2040-2059

  Hwang, Inseok ^a   Seah, Chze Eng ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Air traffic control; conflict detection; intent inference; trajectory prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008541005     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2006138     Document Type: Article

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