Two-sensor precision aircraft and vehicle positioning for safe segment occupancy control system

Author

Vertua, Carlo A.

Author_Institution

Thales Italia - Air Syst. Div., Milan

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The ldquosafe segment occupancy control systemrdquo is the basic component of an airport guidance system where all the moving aircrafts are kept safely separated by an empty taxiway segment: the center lights of such segment shall be ldquoredrdquo until the leading aircraft has cleared also the next segment. This requires a very accurate and reliable detection of each aircraft progression from one segment to the following one. The study is focused on the comparative performance analysis of a two-sensor detection system based on a light-weight SMR and a basic multilateration/ADS-B system.

Keywords

air traffic control; aircraft landing guidance; sensor fusion; airport guidance system; safe segment occupancy control system; two-sensor detection system; two-sensor precision aircraft; vehicle positioning; Aerospace control; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Airports; Automatic control; Control systems; Lighting control; Navigation; Performance analysis; Vehicle safety; ADS-B; Guidance; Multilateration; SMR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Communications - Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles, 2008. TIWDC/ESAV 2008. Tyrrhenian International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Capri

Print_ISBN

978-88-903482-0-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TIWDC.2008.4649044

Filename

4649044