Combining multiple classifiers to quantitatively rank the impact of abnormalities in flight data

  • Authors:
  • E. Smart;D. Brown;J. Denman

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Industrial Research, Floor 7, Mercantile House, Hampshire Terrace, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2EG, United Kingdom;Institute of Industrial Research, Floor 7, Mercantile House, Hampshire Terrace, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2EG, United Kingdom;Flight Data Services (FDS) Ltd., 189-199 West Street, Fareham, Hampshire, PO16 0EN, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel two phase method that combines one class support vector machine classifiers using combination rules to quantitatively assess the degree of abnormality at various heights during individual aircraft descents and also over the whole descent. Whilst classifiers have been combined before in the literature with success, it is the first time they have been applied to the problem of analysing the act of descending of commercial jet aircraft. The method is tested on artificial Gaussian data and flight data from an industrial partner, Flight Data Services Ltd., the world's leading flight data analysis provider, with promising results.