Aircraft Track Anomaly Detection Based on MOD-Bi-LSTM

• Main Authors: Yupeng Cao, Jiangwei Cao, Zhiguo Zhou, Zhiwen Liu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
• Series: Electronics
• Subjects: anomaly detection; Multidimensional Outlier Descriptor (MOD); Bi-directional Long-Short Time Memory (Bi-LSTM); track outliers; track deviation
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1007

In order to ensure flight safety and eliminate hidden dangers, it is very important to detect aircraft track anomalies, which include track deviations and track outliers. Many existing track anomaly detection methods cannot make full use of multidimensional information of the relevant track. Based on this problem, an aircraft track anomaly detection method based on the combination of the Multidimensional Outlier Descriptor (MOD) and the Bi-directional Long-Short Time Memory network (Bi-LSTM) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, track deviation detection is transformed into the track density classification problem, and then a multidimensional outlier descriptor is designed to detect track deviation. Secondly, track outliers detection is transformed into a prediction problem, and then a Bi-LSTM model is designed to detect track outliers. Experimental results based on real aircraft track data indicate that the accuracy of the proposed method is 96% and the recall rate is 97.36%. It can detect both track deviation and track outliers effectively.