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443 matches · Engineering
- Semantic Scholar 2013 Article
Runway Safety Monitor Algorithm for Single and Crossing Runway Incursion Detection and Alerting
The Runway Safety Monitor (RSM) algorithm provides warnings of runway incursions in sufficient time for pilots to take evasive action and avoid accidents during landings, takeoffs or when taxiing on the runway.
- Semantic Scholar 2013 Article
Los Angeles International Airport Runway Incursion Studies: Phase III, Center-Taxiway Simulation
- Semantic Scholar 2013 Article
Information Organization in the Airline Cockpit
The all-engine-out landing of Air Transat Flight 236 in the Azores Islands is described and certain aspects of that accident are used to motivate a conceptual framework for the organization and display of information in …
- Semantic Scholar 2013 Article (Hum. Factors)
The Effectiveness of Airline Pilot Training for Abnormal Events
The results suggest that the training and testing practices used in airline training may result in rote-memorized skills that are specific to the training situation and that offer modest generalizability to other situati…
- Semantic Scholar 2013 Article (IEEE Control Systems)
Model-Based Approaches for Fast and Robust Fault Detection in an Aircraft Control Surface Servo Loop: From Theory to Flight Tests [Applications of Control]
- Semantic Scholar 2013 Article (Reliability Engineering & System Safety)
Contrasting safety assessments of a runway incursion scenario: Event sequence analysis versus multi-agent dynamic risk modelling
This study contrasts two approaches to assess accident risk of an example safety critical sociotechnical system by comparing an event sequence based assessment with a multi-agent dynamic risk model (MA-DRM) based assessm…
- Semantic Scholar 2013 Article
Electric Power System of Tu-154M Passenger Aircraft
- Semantic Scholar 2013 Article
Individual Pilot Factors Predict Simulated Runway Incursion Outcomes
- Semantic Scholar 2012 Article
Runway Incursion Severity Risk Analysis
- Semantic Scholar 2012 Article
Pilot’s Information Use During TCAS Events, and Relationship to Compliance to TCAS Resolution Advisories
Two analyses of the pilots’ use of information within their environment are discussed, using data from an eye tracker to identify when the pilot examined the traffic situation display provided by TCAS and compared with p…
- Semantic Scholar 2012 Article
Evaluation of the risk frequency for hazards of runway incursion in Korea
The analysis results verified the close relation of runway incursion with human error and the risk frequency of hazards related to airport runway incursions.
- Semantic Scholar 2012 Article
Safety Talk and Service Culture: Flight Attendant Discourse in Commercial Aviation.
- Semantic Scholar 2012 Article
Runway incursion prevention systems: A review of runway incursion avoidance and alerting system approaches
A review of currently deployed technological responses and those currently under development to runway incursions, including results of currently developed runway incursion prevention systems and the performance of the s…
- Semantic Scholar 2012 Article (Cognition, Technology & Work)
Investigating the investigations: a retrospective study in the aviation maintenance error causation
The impact of human reliability on aviation maintenance safety is investigated to explore the actual mechanisms of maintenance errors initialization and propagation and hence to identify requisite characteristics for fut…
- Semantic Scholar 2012 Article
The Effects of Startle on Pilots During Critical Events: A Case Study Analysis
The startle reaction is examined from a cognitive perspective, followed by an analysis of several recent aircraft accidents where startle effects may have been strong contributory factors, and the link between startle an…
- Semantic Scholar 2012 Article
An Approach to the Health Monitoring of a Pumping Unit in an Aircraft Engine Fuel System
- Semantic Scholar 2012 Article
When profit-seeking trumps safety: The risks and opportunities of liminality in commercial aviation in post-9/11 America
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article
Understanding conflict-resolution taskload: implementing advisory conflict-detection and resolution algorithms in an airspace
The goal of the research is to understand how the formulation, capabilities, and implementation of conflict-detection and resolution tools affect the controller taskload (system demands) associated with the conflict-reso…
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article (2011 First International Conference on Instrumentation, Measurement, Computer, Communication and Control)
Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesInvestigation of Human Factors in UAV Accidents Based on Analysis of Statistical Data
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article
A Piloted Evaluation of Damage Accommodating Flight Control Using a Remotely Piloted Vehicle
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article
Study of Model-based Fault Detection of Distributed Aircraft Engine Control Systems with Transmission Delays
The effect of network-induced time delays on model-based fault diagnostics and control is studied and design methodology for a parity relation based residual generator is presented that is more accurate than the conventi…
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article (International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering)
A simulation software of prognostics and health management for aircraft fuel system
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article (2011 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium)
TCAS traffic display redesign
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article (Journal of Computers)
Runway Incursion Event Forecast Model Based on LS-SVR with Multi-kernel
The two experimental results indicate that LS-SVR with multi-kernel model is better than LS- SVR with individual kernel model and generalized regression neural network (GRNN) model and Consequently, multi- kernel LS-sVR …
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article
Hybrid Electric Integrated Optimized System (HELIOS) Design of a Hybrid Propulsion System for Aircraft
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article
Simulator Evaluation of Runway Incursion Prevention Technology for General Aviation Operations
The purpose of the study was to evaluate modified RIPS aircraft-based incursion detection algorithms and associated alerting and airport surface display concepts for low-end general aviation operations.
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article
Method of Aircraft Fuel Tank System Ignition Source Fail-Safe Feature Analysis
Fuel tank system ignition source failure threatens the safety of the aircraft. For different possible ignition sources in and around the fuel tank system and their airworthiness requirements, this paper proposes a partic…
- Semantic Scholar 2011 Article
Characterization and Analysis of Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Resolution Advisories Resulting from 500' and 1,000' Vertical Separation FAA TCAS Monitoring in the U.S. National Airspace System
- Semantic Scholar 2010 Article (Digital Avionics Systems Conference)
TCAS Operational Performance Assessment in the U.S. National Airspace
- Semantic Scholar 2010 Article
Failure analysis of brazed air passages of an aircraft fuel system
- Semantic Scholar 2010 Article
Human Factors Training in Aviation Maintenance: Impact on Incident Rates
- Semantic Scholar 2010 Article (Chronobiology International)
A CIRCADIAN RHYTHM IN SKILL-BASED ERRORS IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE
The results suggest that during the early hours of the morning, maintenance technicians are at heightened risk of “absent minded” errors involving failures to execute action plans as intended.
- Semantic Scholar 2010 Article (IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference)
Modeling and characterization of an aircraft electric power system with a fuel cell-equipped APU connected at HVDC bus
- Semantic Scholar 2010 Article (Integrated Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance Conference Proceedings)
TCAS solution for low altitude flights
- Semantic Scholar 2010 Article
Preventing human errors in aviation maintenance using an on-line maintenance assistance platform
- Semantic Scholar 2010 Article
Outsourcing Aviation Maintenance: Human Factors Implications, Specifically for Communications
- Semantic Scholar 2010 Article (Prognostics and System Health Management Conference)
Application of Prognostic and Health Management technology on aircraft fuel system
- Semantic Scholar 2009 Article (Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing)
Impact of traffic symbol directional cues on pilot performance during TCAS events
- Semantic Scholar 2009 Article (Health Affairs)
Reducing health care hazards: lessons from the commercial aviation safety team.
A public-private partnership is proposed in the health care community to coordinate national efforts and move patient safety and quality forward.
- Semantic Scholar 2009 Article
Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Engineering Maintenance: with Reference to Aviation and Power Generation
- Semantic Scholar 2009 Article
Aviation safety: Comparing national and regional governmental regulatory commercial oversight affiliations
- Semantic Scholar 2008 Article
Enhanced diagnosis of faults using the digraph approach applied to a dynamic aircraft fuel system
Malfunctions within commercial aircraft can considerably increase both the financial cost of downtime and the disruption caused to passenger travel.
- Semantic Scholar 2008 Article
Issues That Precipitate Errors in Airline Maintenance
- Semantic Scholar 2007 Article
Aircraft fuel rig system fault diagnostics based on the application of digraphs
The issue of fault diagnostics is a dominant factor concerning current engineering systems. Information regarding possible failures is required in order to minimize disruption caused to functionality.
- Semantic Scholar 2007 Article
Human hazard analysis: A prototype method for human hazard analysis developed for the large commercial aircraft industry
- Semantic Scholar 2007 Article
AN ANALYSIS OF OPERATIONAL ERRORS AND THE INTERACTION WITH TCAS RAS
The results suggest the need to revisit the concept of down linking RA information to ATC, with the likelihood of receiving vertical clearances in opposite direction to the RA higher when the information from the pilot t…
- Semantic Scholar 2006 Article
A Study of U. S. Inflight Icing Accidents and Incidents, 1978 to 2002
- Semantic Scholar 2006 Article (2006 ieee/aiaa 25TH Digital Avionics Systems Conference)
Runway Incursion Prevention for General Aviation Operations
- Semantic Scholar 2006 Article
Human Challenges in the Maintenance of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
The objective of this study was to identify human factors that will apply in the maintenance of UAV systems and identified issues and grouped them into four categories: hardware; software/documentation; personnel, and en…
- Semantic Scholar 2005 Article
STCA, TCAS, airproxes and collision risk
The focus here is on the performance of and interaction between the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and the controller's short-term conflict alert (STCA) system.