Advances in the Federal Aviation Administration Testing of the User Request Evaluation Tool Using an Off the Shelf Animation Package

摘要

The Federal Aviation Administration's Simulation and Analysis Group (ACB-330) was sponsored by the Free Flight Program Office (AOZ-200) to support the accuracy testing of the User Request Evaluation Tool (URET). URET is a conflict probe or decision support tool that provides the air traffic controller with predictions of conflicts (i.e., loss of minimum separation between aircraft) within a parametric time (e.g. 20 minutes) in the future. The accuracy testing required detailed analysis of URET's predictions of conflicts. ACB-330 utilized an off the shelf animation package by Wolverine Software Corporation, Proof Animation, to develop an animation capability, which aids the analyst in examining this testing data. It allows the analyst to focus on the accuracy analysis and not the time consuming mechanics of presenting air traffic data. The paper presents an example application of ACB-330's accuracy animation tool.