26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-11.4.3 (AIAA 2008-8883)

A SYSTEM SAFETY FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING FUTURE AIR TRANSPORTATION SEPARATION ASSURANCE AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE CONCEPTS

S. J. Landry, A. V. Lagu
Purdue Univ., USA

Keywords: air transportation, collision avoidance

A system safety framework was developed to evaluate the safety of separation assurance algorithms. This framework models the separation function in air traffic control as a set of safe and unsafe states, where the agents in the system apply control to keep the system in safe states. Qualitative and quantitative results are provided.

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