DYNAMIC PROBABILITY FIELDS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND GUIDANCE SOLUTIONS

Edwin Williams 1, Yan Jin 2

1The University of Southern California

2The University of Southern California

DOI: 10.1515/aon-2019-0004

ABSTRACT

Standard Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) systems take state data from a navigation system and create a trajectory that minimizes some a-priori determined cost function. These cost functions are typically time, money, weight, or any general physically realizable quantity. Previous work has been done to show the effectiveness of using risk as the sole objective function. However, this previous work used Poisson distributions and historical estimates to achieve this goal. In this paper we present the situation-risk assessment (SRA) method contained within the intelligent situation assessment and collision avoidance (iSC) platform. The SRA method uses data clustering, and pattern recognition to create a historically based estimate of guidance probabilities. These are then used in data driven, dynamic models to create the future probability fields of the situation. This probability, along with the other agent’s goals and objectives, are then used to create a minimum risk guidance solution in the nautical environment.

KEYWORDS

GNSS, Galileo, EDAS, tracking, firefighting, multisensor, fusion, communication optimization

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