摘要: |
This work investigates two machine learning techniques: Support Vector Machine (SVM)
and Autoencoders (AE) with SVM layer for classification of radar trajectories as General
Aviation (GA), fixed-wing small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS), or not-an-aircraft using
radar data recorded from sUAS. Onboard identification of intruder aircraft type is useful for
planning avoidance maneuvers and is necessary to provide autonomous systems to meet or
exceed the avoidance capability of a human pilot. Aircraft classification can identify intruder
aircraft that are not part of the team and may be violating a Temporary Flight Restriction.
Aircraft classification is needed in monitoring an airspace where multiple aircraft are teaming
on a shared task. Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations
(STEReO) is a NASA project aimed at improving disaster response by enabling large scale
aircraft operations through the teaming of manned aircraft with sUAS to maximize
emergency response resources. To this end, this work uses trajectories and radar derived
features to classify aircraft from a multirotor sUAS. The AE + SVM generated the strongest
classification overall accuracy of 93.5% using the first 4 seconds of radar track data for tracks
that activated the avoidance system. Subsampling the available track data increased the
available training data with the maximum aircraft recall of 0.94 achieved using the SVM with
1 second track data. |