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|Document Type: ||Thesis or dissertation|
|Title: ||Advanced surface movement guidance and control system investigation and implementation in simulation|
|Authors: ||Ding, Ting|
|Supervisors: ||Savvaris, Al|
|Issue Date: ||2010|
|Abstract: ||The Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (SMGCS) is a system
providing the surveillance, routing, guidance and control supports to the airport
traffic. The moving objects being managed include all the aircraft and vehicles
in the interested area on the surface; the personnel making use of this system
are the pilots, vehicle drivers, and ground controllers.
The airport surface traffic management has long been discussed because of the
operational challenges; this includes the increasing complexity of the field
movement management and the density of airport traffic. To improve airport
operation qualities, the Advanced Surface Movement Control and Guidance
System (A-SMGCS) was introduced. In terms of architecture and capability
differences, there are two levels of the A-SMGCS, which are A-SMGCS I & II.
The positive impacts on the airport surface operation are: safety, capacity,
efficiency, human factor conditions, and economic issues.
This project deals with an investigation on SMGCS baseline and the A-SMGCS,
covering the system conception, background, current developments and relative
technologies. The applications in practical operations are discussed as well.
There is also an analysis about the airport surface incursion classification and
severity. Based on this, a simulation is presented to illustrate the practical
applications of the A-SMGCS. The simulation results show the functions of
Human Machine Interface (HMI) in A-SMGCS, including the designation and
diversion for clearance, the real-time view of surface target movements and the
indications for contracted incursions.
Over all, the research aims are to work on an investigation and explanation of
A-SMGCS, and to implement a simulation of the system functions. The
implementation includes the image processing, system architecture definition in
Simulink, Graphical User Interface (GUI) design for the HMI, and the
corresponding Matlab programming for simulation environment establishment.|
|Appears in Collections:||PhD and Masters by research theses (School of Engineering)|
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