Optoelectronics Three Dimensional Tracking System for Collision Risk Model

Y-R.P. Huang, J. Fagan

Abstract:	This paper presents the development of the aircraft tracking project conducted by FAA AFS-440 at the Oklahoma City and The University of Oklahoma. This paper presents the results of a low cost monitoring system to visually track a high speed approaching aircraft on approach to landing during the visual segment of flight after leaving IMC conditions. Until now, the Collision Risk Model (CRM) provides approach obstacle clearance risk analysis until the aircraft reaches the Decision Height (DH). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has developed a simple and economic solution to analyze the approaching aircraft’s behavior during the time immediately after leaving the instrument approach to landing, in the visual segment, during Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC). This paper details of the CRM tracking system concept, implementation, including software and hardware development. This paper also includes the system’s function development, calibration, and system definition errors as well as a sample of the data produced by the new system. The CRM tracking system satisfy the requirement to provide a large volume of track data on an area of the approach that had not been examined for the collision risk of each type of aircraft on final approach after leaving IMC condition. Controller and pilot error in the critical phase of flight can be determined in order to implement new FAA procedure for the final approach to landing. This CRM tracking system has proved its functional integrity and has successfully produced TSPI data for the FAA at the University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airpark (KOUN) and Oklahoma City Will Rogers World Airport (KOKC).
Published in:	Proceedings of the 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2009) September 22 - 25, 2009 Savannah International Convention Center Savannah, GA
Pages:	2188 - 2194
Cite this article:	Huang, Y-R.P., Fagan, J., "Optoelectronics Three Dimensional Tracking System for Collision Risk Model," Proceedings of the 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2009), Savannah, GA, September 2009, pp. 2188-2194.
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