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We discuss the problem of continuing accidents in contemporary aircraft landings and propose three autonomous agents whose task it is to jointly monitor the aircraft and its flight crew. Two of these agents are monitoring the path of the aircraft, one armed with prior knowledge of how planes tend to land at that airport, the other with the ability to project forward from the plane’s current position in order to identify potential dangers. The third agent monitors the flight crew’s behavior. These three agents act together to improve safety in the specific process of landing the aircraft.
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Thatcher, S., Jain, L., Fyfe, C. (2004). An Intelligent Aircraft Landing Support System. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3213. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30132-5_15
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