A Ph.D. thesis proposes an efficient approach for optimizing aircraft eco-design with high-dimensional mixed integer variables.
problem Optimizing aircraft eco-design with high-dimensional mixed integer variables.
method EGO optimization approach based on sequential enrichment of adaptive surrogate models, adapted for high-dimensional and mixed variable spaces.
result Effective parameterization tools significantly reduce the number of design variables, enabling optimization of complex aircraft concepts.
Models for predicting aircraft motion are an important component of modern aeronautical systems. These models help aircraft plan collision avoidance maneuvers and help conduct offline performance and safety analyses. In this article, we develop a method for learning a probabilistic generative model of aircraft motion i…
In recent years, air traffic communication data has become easy to access, enabling novel research in many fields. Exploiting this new data source, a wide range of applications have emerged, from weather forecasting to stock market prediction, or the collection of information about military and government movements. Ty…
Paper uses diffusion models to design electric aircraft quickly.
problem Designing electric aircraft efficiently and accurately.
method Simulation-based inference with hierarchical diffusion models.
result Rediscovers known aircraft design trends and laws.
Machine learning improves aircraft performance prediction by analyzing flight data.
problem Limited aircraft performance models based on industry-wide guidelines.
method Use machine learning on flight data to estimate drag and lift coefficients.
result Excellent accuracy in real-life data, supporting aerodynamics principles.
Bayesian optimization reduces computational effort in aircraft design optimization.
problem High computational cost in industrial aircraft design optimization.
method Constrained Bayesian optimization (Super Efficient Global Optimization with Mixture of Experts)
result Significant computational efficiency improvements over existing Isight optimizers.
A modern aircraft may require on the order of thousands of custom shims to fill gaps between structural components in the airframe that arise due to manufacturing tolerances adding up across large structures. These shims are necessary to eliminate gaps, maintain structural performance, and minimize pull-down forces req…
Bayesian optimization improves with transfer learning for aircraft design.
problem Cold start problem in Bayesian optimization for aircraft design.
method Ensemble of surrogate models using transfer learning in a constrained Bayesian optimization framework.
result Significant improvement in convergence and prediction accuracy.
Optimizes electric aircraft deployment for Canadian aviation to reduce emissions.
problem Limited fleet capacity and operational structure hinder electric aircraft transition.
method Multi-period mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) framework.
result Electric aircraft can reduce emissions by over 70% within five years.
This paper explores using a Long short-term memory (LSTM) based sequence autoencoder to learn interesting features for detecting surveillance aircraft using ADS-B flight data. An aircraft periodically broadcasts ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast) data to ground receivers. The ability of LSTM networks …
A federated learning framework improves RUL prognosis for aircraft engines without sharing data.
problem Limited run-to-failure data samples for accurate RUL prognosis.
method Federated learning framework, decentralized validation, and robust aggregation methods.
result The federated learning framework leads to more accurate RUL prognosis for five out of six airlines.
Air traffic control is a real-time safety-critical decision making process in highly dynamic and stochastic environments. In today's aviation practice, a human air traffic controller monitors and directs many aircraft flying through its designated airspace sector. With the fast growing air traffic complexity in traditi…
New method optimizes aircraft design with reduced computation using multi-fidelity models.
problem Efficiently solve complex aircraft design problems with limited computational resources.
method Proposes novel multi-fidelity selection strategies that consider both objective and constraint information.
result Shows 86% to 200% more constraint compliant solutions with a limited budget. Adapts Bayesian optimization for mixed constraints in aircraft design.
problem Optimizing expensive black box functions with mixed constraints.
method Super efficient global optimization with upper trust bound for constraints, Gaussian process uncertainty, refinement procedure.
result Superior performance on aircraft design problem compared to state-of-the-art solvers.
Paper reduces hyperparameters in mixed-categorical Gaussian processes for green aircraft optimization.
problem High-dimensional mixed-categorical Gaussian processes with many hyperparameters.
method Innovative dimension reduction algorithm using partial least squares regression.
result Significant reduction in fuel consumption (439 kg) for a green aircraft.
Paper uses deep imitation learning to predict aircraft trajectories accurately.
problem Inefficient and costly Air Traffic Management system limits predictability.
method Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning framework with trajectory clustering and classification.
result Accurate predictions for entire trajectory stages, pre- and tactical.
VerifAI toolkit improves neural network-based aircraft taxiing system safety.
problem Improving safety of autonomous aircraft taxiing systems using neural networks.
method Unified approach to formal analysis and retraining of AI systems, including falsification, debugging, and retraining.
result Improved neural network performance and reduced failure cases in aircraft taxiing system.
In aircraft industry, market needs evolve quickly in a high competitiveness context. This requires adapting a given aircraft model in minimum time considering for example an increase of range or the number of passengers (cf A330 NEO family). The computation of loads and stress to resize the airframe is on the critical …
The introduction of automated flight control and management systems have made possible aircraft designs that sacrifice arodynamic stability in order to incorporate stealth technology intro their shape, operate more efficiently, and are highly maneuverable. Therefore, modern flight management systems are reliant on mult…
Bayesian optimization reduces hyperparameters for mixed variable design problems.
problem Optimizing designs with a large number of mixed continuous, integer, and categorical variables.
method Adaptive dimension reduction using partial least squares for fewer hyperparameters.
result Significant improvement in performance compared to genetic algorithms.
One approach to designing decision making logic for an aircraft collision avoidance system frames the problem as a Markov decision process and optimizes the system using dynamic programming. The resulting collision avoidance strategy can be represented as a numeric table. This methodology has been used in the developme…
A new classification method based on Minimum Spanning Trees
problem Improving classification in supervised learning
method Proposing a classification algorithm based on Minimum Spanning Trees
result The proposed method is effective and computationally efficient
A new framework uses deep reinforcement learning to improve aircraft separation in busy airspace.
problem Improving aircraft separation in high-density, dynamic airspace constrained by human controllers.
method Proximal Policy Optimization with an attention network for distributed vehicle autonomy.
result The framework significantly reduces offline training time and increases performance.
CBMs improve interpretability in RUL prediction for aircraft engines.
problem Lack of interpretability in deep learning models for asset prognostics.
method Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) for RUL prediction.
result CBMs achieve comparable or superior performance to black-box models while being more interpretable.
Challenge to separate Earth's magnetic field from vehicle's magnetic field for accurate navigation.
problem Separate Earth's magnetic field from vehicle's magnetic field for accurate magnetic navigation.
method Use machine learning (ML) and integrate physics of magnetic navigation (SciML) to remove aircraft magnetic field from total magnetic field.
result A model can be constructed to effectively remove aircraft magnetic field from the dataset.
Aircraft engine manufacturers collect large amount of engine related data during flights. These data are used to detect anomalies in the engines in order to help companies optimize their maintenance costs. This article introduces and studies a generic methodology that allows one to build automatic early signs of anomal…
In this paper, we consider a problem of failure prediction in the context of predictive maintenance applications. We present a new approach for rare failures prediction, based on a general methodology, which takes into account peculiar properties of technical systems. We illustrate the applicability of the method on th…
Paper tackles hard shape constraints in kernel machines.
problem Enforcing shape requirements in a hard fashion is challenging.
method Tightened second-order cone constrained reformulation for kernel machines.
result Performance guarantees and efficiency demonstrated in various applications.
Reliable 4D aircraft trajectory prediction, whether in a real-time setting or for analysis of counterfactuals, is important to the efficiency of the aviation system. Toward this end, we first propose a highly generalizable efficient tree-based matching algorithm to construct image-like feature maps from high-fidelity m…
In many contexts the modal properties of a structure change, either due to the impact of a changing environment, fatigue, or due to the presence of structural damage. For example during flight, an aircraft's modal properties are known to change with both altitude and velocity. It is thus important to quantify these cha…
Detecting early signs of failures (anomalies) in complex systems is one of the main goal of preventive maintenance. It allows in particular to avoid actual failures by (re)scheduling maintenance operations in a way that optimizes maintenance costs. Aircraft engine health monitoring is one representative example of a fi…
Predicting the outcomes of integrating Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) into the National Aerospace (NAS) is a complex problem which is required to be addressed by simulation studies before allowing the routine access of UAS into the NAS. This thesis focuses on providing 2D and 3D simulation frameworks using a game theore…
Safe neural networks for input-output specifications.
problem Ensuring machine learning models adhere to input-output constraints.
method Designing constrained predictors and combining them safely.
result Demonstrated on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Improved aircraft structure prediction using derivative-enhanced sparse Cholesky GP method.
problem Accurate real-time prediction of aircraft structure performance.
method Combining derivative data with a modified dynamic sparse Cholesky linear system solver.
result Improved prediction accuracy of aircraft structure performance.
This paper presents a novel algorithm, based upon the dependent Dirichlet process mixture model (DDPMM), for clustering batch-sequential data containing an unknown number of evolving clusters. The algorithm is derived via a low-variance asymptotic analysis of the Gibbs sampling algorithm for the DDPMM, and provides a h…
Recent developments within deep learning are relevant for nonlinear system identification problems. In this paper, we establish connections between the deep learning and the system identification communities. It has recently been shown that convolutional architectures are at least as capable as recurrent architectures …
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), autonomously-guided aircraft, are widely used for tasks involving surveillance and reconnaissance. A version of the pursuit-evasion problems centered around UAVs and its variants has been extensively studied in recent years due to numerous breakthroughs in AI. We present an approach to …
Improved person detection in occluded conditions with AOS images.
problem Inaccurate classification of partially occluded people, animals, or objects.
method Combining multi-perspective images captured by Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS) to achieve better precision and recall.
result Precision/recall of 96/93% for automated person detection.
In this paper, we consider adaptive decision-making problems for stochastic state estimation with partial observations. First, we introduce the concept of weak adaptive submodularity, a generalization of adaptive submodularity, which has found great success in solving challenging adaptive state estimation problems. The…
Can engineering neural networks be approached in a disciplined way similar to how engineers build software for civil aircraft? We present nn-dependability-kit, an open-source toolbox to support safety engineering of neural networks for autonomous driving systems. The rationale behind nn-dependability-kit is to consider…
Analysis and manipulation of trained neural networks is a challenging and important problem. We propose a symbolic representation for piecewise-linear neural networks and discuss its efficient computation. With this representation, one can translate the problem of analyzing a complex neural network into that of analyzi…
A method to minimize regret in multi-agent control systems with adversarial disturbances.
problem Optimal control of dynamical systems with adversarial disturbances and multiple agents.
method Reduction from online convex optimization to a distributed algorithm for multi-agent control.
result The resulting distributed algorithm has low regret relative to the optimal precomputed joint policy.
Current UAV-recorded datasets are mostly limited to action recognition and object tracking, whereas the gesture signals datasets were mostly recorded in indoor spaces. Currently, there is no outdoor recorded public video dataset for UAV commanding signals. Gesture signals can be effectively used with UAVs by leveraging…
D2D-SPL uses discrete states and a classifier to train RL faster.
problem Training neural networks in RL due to correlated samples.
method Discretizes state space, uses actor-critic, selects input/target pairs, trains classifier.
result Trains faster than state-of-the-art methods.
The goal of system identification is to learn about underlying physics dynamics behind the time-series data. To model the probabilistic and nonparametric dynamics model, Gaussian process (GP) have been widely used; GP can estimate the uncertainty of prediction and avoid over-fitting. Traditional GPSSMs, however, are ba…
Meta-reinforcement learning improves fault-adaptive control efficiency.
problem Adaptive control under abrupt system faults with strict time constraints.
method Model-agnostic meta learning (MAML) with a fault library of prior policies.
result Improved sample efficiency and quick adaptation to new faults.
Defense strategy improves controller robustness against adversarial attacks.
problem Adversarial attacks on learning-enabled controllers in CPS.
method Two-stage defense strategy treating controller and environment as black-boxes with unknown dynamics.
result Defense strategy effectively improves controller robustness in realistic control domains.
Automatic anomaly detection is a major issue in various areas. Beyond mere detection, the identification of the source of the problem that produced the anomaly is also essential. This is particularly the case in aircraft engine health monitoring where detecting early signs of failure (anomalies) and helping the engine …