Research and Technology

Highlights

Multi-modality safety monitoring, detection, and data analysis

  • Develop a real-time in-flight safety monitoring framework to enhance pilots’ situational awareness and prevent fatal accidents
    Detection of operational and mechanical upsets in scheduled commercial flights using data-driven approaches
  • Investigate propagation of aircraft upsets in air traffic system for proactive air traffic system health management
    Predict post upset aircraft performance and trajectory to assess risk level and prevent domino effects in air traffic system

Real World Applications

  • Real-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance for the Next Generation National Airspace System (NextGen)
  • Recent technology advances in sensors, networking, data mining, prognostics, and other analytic techniques enable
    proactive risk management
  •  When applied to a combination of new and existing sets of NextGen data, further processing of this new metadata set
    allows us to identify, predict, and mitigate hazards
  •  Key challenge: how to integrate the massively complex sources of data that will drive the future air traffic management system
  • Aviation community foresees a future when it can recognize safety risks as they develop in real time and then implement strategies to prevent those risks from occurring
  • Further develop collaboration between human operators and autonomous systems to enable a more resilient aviation system
  • Systematic training of future engineers and workforce pipeline for future aerospace industries and research

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Papers

Below is a list of papers with links available to read.

Controller-Pilot Communication as an Index Of Human Performance in the National Airspace System

Authors: Mustafa Demir, Sarah Ligda, Nancy Cooke, Megan Seeds, Mariah Harris, Mary Niemczyk

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Monitoring Human Performance in Real-Time for NAS Safety Prognostics

Authors: Sarah V. Ligda, Mariah J. Harris, Christopher S. Lieber, and Nancy J. Cooke

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Understanding Controller-Pilot Interaction Dynamics in the Context of Air Traffic Control

Authors: Mustafa Demir, Nancy J. Cooke, Christopher S. Lieber, Sarah Ligda

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Real-time Production Performance Analysis Using Machine Degradation Signals: a Two-Machine Case

Authors: Yunyi Kang, Hao Yan and Feng Ju

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Performance Evaluation of Production Systems Using Real-Time Machine Degradation Signals

Authors: Yunyi Kang, Hao Yan, and Feng Ju

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Tensor Completion for Weakly-dependent Data on Graph for Metro Passenger Flow Prediction

Authors: Ziyue Li, Nurettin Dorukhan Sergin, Hao Yan, Chen Zhang and Fugee Tsung

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Frequency Domain Instantaneous Wavenumber Estimation for Damage Quantification in Layered Plate Structures

Authors: Olivier Mesnil, Hao Yan, Massimo Ruzzene, Kamran Paynabar and Jianjun Shi

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Fast wavenumber measurement for accurate and automatic location and quantification of defect in composite

Authors: Olivier Mesnil, Hao Yan, Massimo Ruzzene, Kamran Paynabar and Jianjun Shi

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Comments on: On Active Learning Methods for Manifold Data

Authors: Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei, Hao Yan and Kamran Paynabar

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Image-Based Process Monitoring Using Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition

Authors: Hao Yan, Kamran Paynabar, and Jianjun Shi

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Anomaly Detection in Images With Smooth Background via Smooth-Sparse Decomposition

Authors: Hao Yan, Kamran Paynabar & Jianjun Shi

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Real-Time Monitoring of High-Dimensional Functional Data Streams via Spatio-Temporal
Smooth Sparse Decomposition

Authors: Hao Yan, Kamran Paynabar & Jianjun Shi

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Image-based Process Monitoring via Adversarial Autoencoder with Applications to Rolling Defect Detection

Authors: Hao Yan, Huai-Ming Yeh, and Nurettin Sergin

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Physics-based Deep Spatio-temporal Metamodeling for Cardiac Electrical Conduction Simulation

Authors: Hao Yan, Xinyu Zhao, Zhiyong Hu, Dongping Du

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Structured Point Cloud Data Analysis Via Regularized Tensor Regression for Process
Modeling and Optimization

Authors: Hao Yan, Kamran Paynabar & Massimo Pacella

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Generalized Wavelet Shrinkage of Inline Raman Spectroscopy for Quality Monitoring of
Continuous Manufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Buckypaper

Authors: Xiaowei Yue, Kan Wang, Hao Yan, Jin Gyu Park, Zhiyong Liang, Chuck Zhang, Ben Wang, and Jianjun Shi

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A Wavelet-Based Penalized Mixed-Effects Decomposition for Multichannel Profile Detection of In-Line Raman Spectroscopy

Authors: Xiaowei Yue, Hao Yan, Jin Gyu Park, Zhiyong Liang, and Jianjun Shi

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Multiple profiles sensor-based monitoring and anomaly detection

Authors: Chen Zhang, Hao Yan, Seungho Lee & Jianjun Shi

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Weakly correlated profile monitoring based on sparse multi-channel functional principal component analysis

Authors: Chen Zhang, Hao Yan, Seungho Lee & Jianjun Shi

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Dynamic Multivariate Functional Data Modeling via Sparse Subspace Learning

Authors: Chen Zhang, Hao Yan, Seungho Lee, and Jianjun Shi

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A Recurrent Neural Network Approach for Aircraft Trajectory Prediction with Weather Features From Sherlock

Authors: Yutian Pang, Houpu Yao, Jueming Hu, Yongming Liu

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Aircraft Trajectory Prediction using LSTM Neural Network with Embedded Convolutional Layer

Authors: Yutian Pang, Nan Xu, and Yongming Liu

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Probabilistic Aircraft Trajectory Prediction Considering Weather Uncertainties Using Dropout As Bayesian Approximate Variational Inference

Authors: Yutian Pang and Yongming Liu

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Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (CGAN) for Aircraft Trajectory Prediction considering weather effects

Authors: Yutian Pang and Yongming Liu

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Probabilistic Aircraft Trajectory Prediction with Weather Uncertainties using Approximate Bayesian Variational Inference to Neural Networks

Authors: Yutian Pang, Yuhao Wang and Yongming Liu

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Evaluating the Robustness of Bayesian Neural Networks Against Different Types of Attacks

Authors: Yutian Pang, Sheng Cheng, Jueming Hu and Yongming Liu

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Citations

Below is a list of papers and conference papers without links.

Chen, J., Liu, Y., Cooke, N., & Tang, P. (2019). Real-time Facial Expression and Head Pose Analysis for Monitoring the Workloads of Air Traffic Controllers. In AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum(p. 3412).

Demir, M., Ligda, S., Cooke, N., Seeds, M., Harris, M, Niemczyk, M. (2019). Controller-Pilot Communication as an Index of Human Performance in the National Airspace System.  20th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, May 2019, Dayton, OH.

Guoyi Li, Ashwin Rai, Hyunseong Lee, Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Operational anomaly detection in flight data using a multivariate gaussian mixture model,” PHM Society Conference, 10(1), 2018.

Guoyi Li, Hyunseong Lee, Ashwin Rai, Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Analysis of operational and mechanical anomalies in scheduled commercial flights using a logarithmic multivariate Gaussian model,” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 110, 20-39, 2020.

Hyunseong Lee, Hyung Jin Lim, Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Data-driven system health monitoring technique using autoencoder for the safety management of commercial aircraft,” Neural Computing and Applications (in press).

Hyunseong Lee, Guoyi Li, Ashwin Rai, Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Real-time anomaly detection framework using a support vector regression for the safety monitoring of commercial aircraft,” Advanced Engineering Informatics, 44, 101071, 2020.

Hyunseong Lee, Hyung Jin Lim, Paul Parker, Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Precursor detection of aircraft loss of control in-flight (LOC-I) and prediction of future trajectory,” AIAA Aviation Forum, 2879, 2020.

Hyunseong Lee, Guoyi Li, Ashwin Rai, Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Health Monitoring framework for aircraft engine system using deep neural network,” Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society Conference, 11(1), 2019.

Hyunseong Lee, Guoyi Li, Ashwin Rai, Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Propagation of trained flight performance and observed anomalies to air traffic models,” AIAA Aviation Forum, 2941, 2019.

Hyunseong Lee, Guoyi Li, Ashwin Rai, Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Anomaly detection of aircraft system using kernel-based learning algorithm,” AIAA Scitech Forum, 1224, 2019.

Ligda, S. V., Harris, M. J., Lieber, C. S., & Cooke, N. J. (2019).  Monitoring Human Performance in Real-Time for NAS Safety Prognostics. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, June 2019, Dallas, TX.

Srinivasan, P., Nagarajan, V., & Mahadevan, S. (2019). Mining and classifying aviation accident reports. In AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum (p. 2938).

Sun, Z., Zhang, C., Tang, P., Wang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2019). Bayesian network modeling of airport runway incursion occurring processes for predictive accident control. In Advances in Informatics and Computing in Civil and Construction Engineering(pp. 669-676). Springer, Cham.

Tang, P., Wang, Y. (2020). Spatiotemporal Data-Driven Simulation and Clustering of Ground Operations of Aircraft for Comprehending Airport Jams and Collisions. In ASCE Construction Research Congress (In Print)

Tang, P., Wang, Y., Sun, Z., & Liu, Y. (2019, December). Data-driven spatiotemporal simulation of ground movements of aircraft for preventive airport safety. In 2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (pp. 2992-3000). IEEE.

Wang, W., & Ying, L. (2018). Dynamic data communications for real-time information fusion. In M. Orchard, & A. Bregon (Eds.), PHM 2018 – 10th Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, PHM). Prognostics and Health Management Society.

W. Wang and L. Ying, “Learning Parallel Markov Chains over Unreliable Wireless Channels,” 2020 54th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, USA, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CISS48834.2020.1570614323.

Wang, Y., Zhe, S., Liu, Y., & Tang, P. (2019). Predicting Collisions between Aircraft through Spatiotemporal Data-Driven Simulation of Airport Ground Operations. In AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum(p. 3414).

Zhang, X., Kong, Y., Subramanian, A., & Mahadevan, S. (2018). Data-driven Modeling for Aviation Safety Diagnosis and Prognosis. In Annual Conference of the PHM Society (Vol. 10, No. 1).

Zhang, X., & Mahadevan, S. (2019). Aviation Safety Assessment Using Historical Flight Trajectory Data. In AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum (p. 3415).

Zhang X., and Mahadevan, S., (2021). Bayesian network modeling of accident investigation reports for aviation safety assessment. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 209, 107371.

Zhang, X., & Mahadevan, S. (2020). Bayesian neural networks for flight trajectory prediction and safety assessment. Decision Support Systems, 131, 113246.

Zhang, X., & Mahadevan, S. (2019). Ensemble machine learning models for aviation incident risk prediction. Decision Support Systems, 116, 48-63.

Zhang, X., Srinivasan, P., and Mahadevan, S. (2021). Sequential deep learning from NTSB reports for aviation safety prognosis. Safety Science, 142, 105390.