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The Center-TRACON Automation System (CTAS) is a collection of planning and control software functions that generate landing schedules and advisories to assist air traffic controllers in handling traffic in the en-route and terminal areas. In this paper, we propose a formal safety analysis methodology to determine the correctness of CTAS with respect to safety. Four large classes of safety notions are identified for the CTAS problem: nominal, robust, structural and degraded. For nominal safety questions we seek conditions under which the system is guaranteed to be nominally safe.
Research supported by the FAA and NASA under Research Contract DTFA03-97-D-0004 and Grant 96-C-001 and by the Army Research Office under Grant DAAH 04-95-1-0588.
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Lygeros, J., Pappas, G.J., Sastry, S. (1998). An approach to the verification of the Center-TRACON automation system. In: Henzinger, T.A., Sastry, S. (eds) Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control. HSCC 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1386. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64358-3_46
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