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Accurate and agile flight with winged drones

Valentin Wüest

Drones hold promise to assist in civilian tasks. To realize this application, future drones must operate within large cities, covering large distances while navigating within cluttered urban landscapes. The increased efficiency of winged drones over rotary ...

EPFL2024

A Virtual Simulation-Pilot Agent for Training of Air Traffic Controllers

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez

In this paper we propose a novel virtual simulation-pilot engine for speeding up air traffic controller (ATCo) training by integrating different state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools. The virtual simulation-pilot engine receives spoken ...

MDPI2023

Validating Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding for Pre-Filling Radar Labels-Increasing Safety While Reducing Air Traffic Controllers' Workload

Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez

Automatic speech recognition and understanding (ASRU) for air traffic control (ATC) has been investigated in different ATC environments and applications. The objective of this study was to quantify the effect of ASRU support for air traffic controllers (AT ...

2023

Bertraffic: Bert-Based Joint Speaker Role And Speaker Change Detection For Air Traffic Control Communications

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) allows transcribing the communications between air traffic controllers (ATCOs) and aircraft pilots. The transcriptions are used later to extract ATC named entities, e.g., aircraft callsigns. One common challenge is speech ...

IEEE2022

How Does Pre-Trained Wav2Vec 2.0 Perform On Domain-Shifted Asr? An Extensive Benchmark On Air Traffic Control Communications

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez

Recent work on self-supervised pre-training focus on leveraging large-scale unlabeled speech data to build robust end-to-end (E2E) acoustic models (AM) that can be later fine-tuned on downstream tasks e.g., automatic speech recognition (ASR). Yet, few work ...

IEEE2022

A Two-Step Approach To Leverage Contextual Data: Speech Recognition In Air-Traffic Communications

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers, can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and increase the reliability of transmitted information. ASR application can lead ...

IEEE2022

Automatic Call Sign Detection: Matching Air Surveillance Data with Air Traffic Spoken Communications

Petr Motlicek

Voice communication is the main channel to exchange information between pilots and Air-Traffic Controllers (ATCos). Recently, several projects have explored the employment of speech recognition technology to automatically extract spoken key information suc ...

MDPI2021

Contextual Semi-Supervised Learning: An Approach To Leverage Air-Surveillance and Untranscribed ATC Data in ASR Systems

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez

Air traffic management and specifically air-traffic control (ATC) rely mostly on voice communications between Air Traffic Controllers (ATCos) and pilots. In most cases, these voice communications follow a well-defined grammar that could be leveraged in Aut ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021

Stabilization of city-scale road traffic networks via macroscopic fundamental diagram-based model predictive perimeter control

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Isik Ilber Sirmatel

Traffic control for large-scale urban road networks remains a challenging problem. Aggregated dynamical models of city-scale traffic, based on the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD), enable development of model-based perimeter control methods. Involving ...

2021

Automatic Speech Recognition Benchmark for Air-Traffic Communications

Petr Motlicek

Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) over the last decade opened new areas of speech-based automation such as in Air-Traffic Control (ATC) environments. Currently, voice communication and Controller Pilot Data Link Communications are the only way ...

ISCA2020

Traffic Locality as an Opportunity in the Data Center

Jonas Fietz

In large scale data centers, network infrastructure is becoming a major cost component; as a result, operators are trying to reduce expenses, and in particular lower the amount of hardware needed to achieve their performance goals (or to improve the perfor ...

EPFL2019

Merging into Single-Lane Roundabouts in the Presence of Uncertainty

Denis Gillet, Ezequiel González Debada

Merging efficiently into roundabouts represents a challenge for autonomous vehicles due to the speed difference between merging traffic flows and the lack of certainty regarding drivers' intent, specially when the road is shared with human drivers and/or i ...

2019

Cooperative Circulating Behavior at Single-Lane Roundabouts

Denis Gillet, Ezequiel González Debada

This work presents a cooperative yielding maneuver planner that allows automated vehicles circulating inside single-lane roundabouts to create feasible merging gaps for oncoming cars. The maneuver is triggered once its impact on the predicted evolution of ...

IEEE2018

Increasing Traffic Flows with DSRC Technology: Field Trials and Performance Evaluation

Frank Schmutz, Sami Ben Hassen, Kyle Sangster Gerard, Aurélien Pomini, Louis Michel Elie Basseto

As traffic congestion becomes a huge problem for most developing and developed countries across the world, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are becoming a hot topic that is attracting attention of researchers and the general public alike. In this p ...

IEEE2018

Updated braking forces for the assessment of road bridges

João Miguel De Oliveira Durães Alves Martins

Safety assessments of road bridges to braking events combine the braking force, acting along the longitudinal axis of the deck, with a vertical load that accounts for the vertical component of the traffic action. In modern design standards the vertical loa ...

EPFL2016

A 24 GHz Phased-Array Doppler Radar Sensor and Transceiver Front-End for Smart Streetlights

Ban Wang

Recently, European Union advocates the smart Solid-State Lighting (SSL). The key factors are a smart-control scheme and an interaction with other networks, such as communication networks and traffic monitoring sensor networks. Public lighting represents a ...

EPFL2014

Experienced travel time prediction for congested freeways

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mehmet Yildirimoglu

Travel time is an important performance measure for transportation systems, and dissemination of travel time information can help travelers make reliable travel decisions such as route choice or departure time. Since the traffic data collected in real time ...

Elsevier2013

Cooperative traffic control of a mixed network with two urban regions and a freeway

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei, Jack Haddad

Currently most optimization methods for urban transport networks (i) are suited for networks with simplified dynamics that are far from real-sized networks or (ii) apply decentralized control, which is not appropriate for heterogeneously loaded networks or ...

Elsevier2013

Experienced Travel Time Prediction for Freeway Systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mehmet Yildirimoglu

Travel time is considered as one of the most important performance measures for roadway systems, and dissemination of travel time information can help travelers to make reliable travel decisions such as route choice or time departure. Since the traffic dat ...

Ieee2012

Real-Time Identification of Risk-Prone Traffic Patterns Taking into Account Weather Conditions

André-Gilles Dumont, Minh Hai Pham

This paper presents the concept of a methodology for identifying in real time risky motorway traffic conditions. This research effort is to automate the extraction of traffic patterns from large data archives using advanced computing techniques. These patt ...

2011