A Deep Learning Framework Based on Multisensor Fusion Information to Identify the Airplane Wake Vortex

Along with the rapid improvement of the aviation industry, flight density also increases with the increase of flight demand, which directly leads to the increasingly prominent influence of wake vortex on flight safety and aviation control. In this paper, we propose a new joint framework—a deep learning framework—based on multisensor fusion information to address the detection and identification of wake vortices in the near-Earth phase. By setting multiple Doppler lidar in near-Earth flight areas at different airports, a large number of accurate wind field data are captured for wake vortex detection. Meanwhile, the airport surveillance radar is used to locate the wake vortex. In the deep learning framework, an end-to-end CNN-LSTM model has been employed to identify the airplane wake vortex from the data detected by Doppler lidar and the airport surveillance radar. The variables including the wind field matrix, positioning matrix, and the variance sequence are used as inputs to the CNN channel and LSTM channel. The identification and location information of the wake vortex in the wind field image will be output by the framework. Experiments show that the joint framework based on a multisensor possesses stronger ability to capture local feature and sequence feature than the traditional CNN or LSTM model.