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A novel fault-tolerant air traffic management methodology using autoencoder and P2P blockchain consensus protocol

Hashemi, Seyed Mohammad, Hashemi, Seyed Ali, Botez, Ruxandra Mihaela and Ghazi, Georges. 2023. « A novel fault-tolerant air traffic management methodology using autoencoder and P2P blockchain consensus protocol ». Aerospace, vol. 10, nº 4.
Compte des citations dans Scopus : 9.

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Abstract

This paper presents a methodology for designing a highly reliable Air Traffic Management and Control (ATMC) methodology using Neural Networks and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) blockchain. A novel data-driven algorithm was designed for Aircraft Trajectory Prediction (ATP) based on an Autoencoder architecture. The Autoencoder was considered in this study due to its excellent fault-tolerant ability when the input data provided by the GPS is deficient. After conflict detection, P2P blockchain was used for securely decentralized decision-making. A meta-controller composed of this Autoencoder, and P2P blockchain performed the ATMC task very well. A comprehensive database of trajectories constructed using our UAS-S4 Ehécatl was used for algorithms validation. The accuracy of the ATP was evaluated for a variety of data failures, and the high-performance index confirmed the excellent efficiency of the autoencoder. Aircraft were considered in several local encounter scenarios, and their trajectories were securely managed and controlled using our in-house Smart Contract software developed on the Ethereum platform. The Sharding approach improved the P2P blockchain performance in terms of computational complexity and processing time in real-time operations. Therefore, the probability of conflicts among aircraft in a swarm environment was significantly reduced using our new methodology and algorithm.

Item Type: Peer reviewed article published in a journal
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Botez, Ruxandra
Ghazi, Georges
Affiliation: Génie des systèmes, Génie des systèmes
Date Deposited: 30 May 2023 20:55
Last Modified: 31 May 2023 15:39
URI: https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/26484

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