History - FAA

Executive Summary

For the past nine years, Professor Jim Luxhøj and his research team from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University have been funded through AAR-490 Risk Analysis Branch (formerly AAR-424) to develop analytical methods and prototype tools for aviation safety risk analysis. These grants led to the development of the following research products:

 

These prototype software tools present Artificial Intelligence and statistical methods for Service Difficulty Report (SDR) forecasting, inspection diagnostics, assessing the relative marginal information content from performance measures, collaborative prioritizing of aviation safety risks, and modeling of accident/incident causal factors, among others. Currently, the Aviation System Risk Model (ASRM) is being enhanced and further developed by the NASA Aviation Safety Program office to evaluate the projected impact upon system risk reduction of multiple new technology insertions/interventions into the National Airspace System (NAS).

Professor Luxhøj and his team published 9 journal articles, 20 conference proceedings, and 3 electronic publications during this 9-year period. 12 undergraduate students, 8 Masters students and 6 Ph.D. students participated in this joint government/industry/academia research during this period. Professor Luxhoj served as the Co-Chair of the 1 st and 2 nd FAA/NASA Risk Analysis and Safety Performance Measurements in Aviation Workshops and is a former Co-Chair of GAIN Working Group B: Analytical Methods and Tools. Mr. John Lapointe leads AAR-490 and Professor Luxhøj’s technical monitors through the years have included Mr. Michael Vu, Ms. Kathy Fazen, and Ms. Rosanne Weiss.

Summary of FAA Research Accomplishments

1993-2002

 

James T. Luxhøj, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator (1997-2002)

Co-Principal Investigator (1993-1996)

 

Sponsored by AAR-490, Risk Analysis Branch

 

 

Grants

Development of Analytical Methods for Aviation Safety Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management , $588,672, Principal Investigator, January 2000 – January 2003 (Grant # 00-G-006).

Development of an Intelligent Decision Support System (IDSS) for Aviation Safety Analysis , $511,600, Principal Investigator, January 1997 – December 1999 (Grant # 97-G-005).

Development of Expert Systems and Neural Networks for Analysis of Maintenance Databases , approx. $275,000, FAA Center for Computational Modeling of Aircraft Structures, Co-Principal Investigator: T. Williams, January 1993 – December 1996.

Decision Support Software Prototypes

The Intelligent Safety Performance, Evaluation, and Control (InSPEC) System

Engine Risk Intelligence System (ERIS)

 

Performance Measure Reduction Tool

 

ClusterGroup

 

Aviation System Risk Model (ASRM)