Section: Application Domains

Air Traffic Control

Air Traffic Control has been an application field of Marc Schoenauer's work in the late 90s (PhD theses of F. Médioni in 98 and S. Oussedik in 2000). It was revived recently with Gaëtan Marceau-Caron's CIFRE PhD together with Thalès Air Systems (Areskin HAdjaz) and Thalès TRT (Pierre Savéant), around global optimization of the traffic in order to increase the capacity of the airspace without overloading the controllers. First results concern the on-line prediction of individual plane trajectories [42] : these results demonstrate that there is no hope to ever predict the global behavior of the traffic by considering planes individually. A new formulation of the problem is hence considered, where plane flows are modeled with Bayesian Networks [42] . On-going work is concerned with the simulation and optimization of air traffic based on this model.