摘要: |
In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the application of machine learning
techniques that leverage aviation data collected from commercial airline operations to improve
safety. Anomaly detection and predictive maintenance have been the main targets for machine
learningapplications. However,thispaperfocusesontheidentificationofprecursors,whichisa
relatively newer application. Precursors are events correlated with adverse events that happen
prior to the adverse event itself. Therefore, precursor mining provides many benefits including
understanding the reasons behind a safety incident and the ability to identify signatures, which
can be tracked throughout a flight to alert the operators of the potential for an adverse event
in the future. This work proposes using the multiple-instance learning (MIL) framework, a
weaklysupervisedlearningtask,combinedwithcarefullydesignedbinaryclassifiersleveraging
a Multi-Head Convolutional Neural Networks-Recurrent Neural Networks (MHCNN-RNN)
architecture. The classifiers are then combined to perform a multi-class task, which enables
the prediction of different adverse events for any given flight and the identification of their
precursors with minimum post-processing. Results obtained show that the MHCNN-RNN is
able to accurately forecast high speed and high path angle events during the approach, and
that it is also capable of determining the aircraft’s parameters that are correlated to these
events. The identified parameters can be considered precursors to the events and may be
studied/tracked further to prevent these events in the future. |