Integrated Organizational Machine Learning for Aviation Flight Data

Abstract

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An increased availability of data and computing power has allowed organizations to apply machine learning techniques to various fleet monitoring activities. Additionally, our ability to acquire aircraft data has increased due to the miniaturization of small form factor computing machines. Aircraft data collection processes contain many data features in the form of multivariate time-series (continuous, discrete, categorical, etc.) which can be used to train machine learning models. Yet, three major challenges still face many flight organizations 1) integration and automation of data collection frameworks, 2) data cleanup and preparation, and 3) embedded machine learning framework. Data cleanup and preparation has been a well known challenge since database systems were first invented. While integration and automation of data collection efforts within many organizations is quite mature, there are special challenges for flight-based organizations (i.e., the automatic and efficient transmission of aircraft flight data to centralized analytical data processing systems). Furthermore, this creates additional constraints for the operationalization of embedded machine learning methods for classical tasks such as classification and prediction; and magnifying design challenges for the more novel ‘prescriptive-based’ architectures. Our research is focused on the application of a design pattern for a) the integration and automation of data collection and b) an organizationally embedded ensemble machine learning method.

Authors

• Pritchard, Michael J Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Thomas, Paul Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Webb, Eric Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Martin, Jon Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Walden, Austin Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Keywords

• flight data
• fleet management
• machine learning methods
• analytical data architecture
• Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
• Databases and Information Systems
• Data Science
• Digital Communications and Networking
• Systems Architecture