The Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (SMGCS) is a systemproviding the surveillance, routing, guidance and control supports to the airporttraffic. The moving objects being managed include all the aircraft and vehiclesin the interested area on the surface; the personnel making use of this systemare the pilots, vehicle drivers, and ground controllers.The airport surface traffic management has long been discussed because of theoperational challenges; this includes the increasing complexity of the fieldmovement management and the density of airport traffic. To improve airportoperation qualities, the Advanced Surface Movement Control and GuidanceSystem (A-SMGCS) was introduced. In terms of architecture and capabilitydifferences, there are two levels of the A-SMGCS, which are A-SMGCS I & II.The positive impacts on the airport surface operation are: safety, capacity,efficiency, human factor conditions, and economic issues.This project deals with an investigation on SMGCS baseline and the A-SMGCS,covering the system conception, background, current developments and relativetechnologies. The applications in practical operations are discussed as well.There is also an analysis about the airport surface incursion classification andseverity. Based on this, a simulation is presented to illustrate the practicalapplications of the A-SMGCS. The simulation results show the functions ofHuman Machine Interface (HMI) in A-SMGCS, including the designation anddiversion for clearance, the real-time view of surface target movements and theindications for contracted incursions.Over all, the research aims are to work on an investigation and explanation ofA-SMGCS, and to implement a simulation of the system functions. Theimplementation includes the image processing, system architecture definition inSimulink, Graphical User Interface (GUI) design for the HMI, and thecorresponding Matlab programming for simulation environment establishment.
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