The current trend of the civil aviation technology is to modernize the legacy air traffic control (ATC) system that is mainly supported by many ground based navigation aids to be the new air traffic management (ATM) system that is enabled by global positioning system (GPS) technology. Due to the low receiving power of GPS signal, it is a major concern to aviation authorities that the operation ...

An overview is provided of the Human Performance Modeling (HPM) element within the NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP). Two separate model development tracks for performance modeling of real-world aviation environments are described: the first focuses on the advancement of cognitive modeling tools for system design, while the second centers on a prescriptive engineering model of activity tracki...

The Aviation Safety Reporting System includes over a million confidential reports describing safety incidents. Natural language processing techniques allow for relatively rapid and largely automated analysis of large collections of text data. Meaningful interpretation of the results and further investigations by subject matter experts can follow. This article describes the application of struct...

BACKGROUND The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) is a general human error framework originally developed and tested within the U.S. military as a tool for investigating and analyzing the human causes of aviation accidents. Based on Reason's (1990) model of latent and active failures, HFACS addresses human error at all levels of the system, including the condition of aircr...

Previous publications from the Aviation Medicine Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance research programs have defined human factors and have emphasized the focus on the human as the central part of a technical system (FAA/AAM & GSC, 1993; Johnson & Shepherd, 1993). The human is affected by such factors as personnel selection, training, job design, and environmental issues, as examples. The desi...

This paper presents research on computational models of pilot activities for detecting and simulating pilot errors, and discusses how these techniques may be used to enhance aviation safety. The discussion addresses improved feedback about pilot errors to support training, and the use of actual and simulated error data to understand how errors may impact new air traffic management concepts and ...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Fundamental Department, Aviation University of Air Force, Changchun, 130022, People’s Republic of China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In this paper, we use the homotopy method to establish the existence and uniqueness of anti-periodic solutions for the nonlinear anti-periodic problem { ẋ + A(t, x) + Bx = f (t) ...

T HE JET age of aircraft design and the rocket age which promises to follow have brought entirely new problems to aviation medicine. These aircraft, flying at supersonic speeds, require longer time periods to complete even simple maneuvers. The accompanying prolonged accelerations will create rapidly increasing demands on cardiovascular function and the nervous system. The problem of dealing wi...