Learning and Predicting Pilot Behavior in Uncontrolled Airspace

What is it about?

This paper presents a method to learn how pilots operate in airspace around uncontrolled airports, and use that knowledge to predict what other pilots will do in the future. This is intended to be applied to large unmanned aircraft, allowing them to plan their own trajectories near uncontrolled airports.

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Why is it important?

To safely integrate large unmanned aircraft into the National Airspace System, they must behave predictably so that other pilots can work around them. A good approach to do this is to mimic other pilots. This paper presents a practical method to do so.