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S&M2061 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2019.2303 Published: December 6, 2019 Mitigation of Runway Incursions by Using a Convolutional Neural Network to Detect and Identify Airport Signs and Markings [PDF] Zhi-Hao Chen and Jyh-Ching Juang (Received January 16, 2019; Accepted October 21, 2019) Keywords: drone, runway incursion, AI, path planning
Runway incursions have resulted in incidents, confusions, and delays in airport operation. With the aim of reducing the risk of runway incursions, in this work, we investigate the use of a machine learning (ML) approach to detect and identify airport signs and markings to enhance operational safety especially in a low-visibility scenario. An artificial intelligence (AI) sensor for detecting the pixels developed and modeled using a convolutional neural network (CNN) is developed. In this design, the neural network outputs the feature vector model after the convolution operation. A filter is used to detect the pixels of the background image of the airport environment. The weight of the feature object is then added with a maximum pool layer after a convolution layer to find the feature map. The CNN is trained to demonstrate its capability in performing object detection and identification. It is expected that the proposed approach can be used to enhance airport operational safety and mitigate the risk of runway incursion.
Corresponding author: Zhi-Hao ChenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Zhi-Hao Chen and Jyh-Ching Juang, Mitigation of Runway Incursions by Using a Convolutional Neural Network to Detect and Identify Airport Signs and Markings, Sens. Mater., Vol. 31, No. 12, 2019, p. 3947-3958. |