The following presentation consists in building a model for the point performance of an Airbus A300 600R in cruise guidance mode using flight data.
The aim is to optimize flight variables in order to reduce fuel consumption of an aircraft.
2. Index
• Objectives
• Data set
• Advanced analytics
• Descriptive analytics: What happened?
• Diagnostic analytics: Why did it happen?
• Predictive analytics: What will happen?
• Prescriptive analytics: How can we make it happen?
• Conclusions
3. The aim is to build a model for the point performance of an
Airbus A300 600R in cruise guidance mode using flight data.
That model will be used to optimize flight variables in order
to reduce fuel consumption.
Objectives
5. Advanced Analytics is the examination of data using sophisticated techniques to
discover deeper insights, make predictions, or generate recommendations.
Advanced analytics
6. Basic statistics are very valuable information to know our data.
Descriptive analytics:
What happened?
Variables statistics:
The weight of an A300 varies between
100.000k g and 200.000 kg.
Fuel flow histogram:
The aircraft usually flights in
regions of low consumption.
7. Diagnostic analytics aims to know the root causes of a certain process.
Linear correlations: The variable which has more influence on the
fuel flow is the weight, and that with less influence is the altitude.
Diagnostic analytics:
Why did it happen?
8. Predictive analytics uses historical data to kow what is going to happen in the future.
Predictive analytics:
What will happen?
Neural network representing
the predictive model.
Linear regression analysis for
testing the results.
9. Prescriptive analytics optimizes decision making and shows what actions to take.
Aircraft consumption as a function of true airspeed. The plot shows that
the fuel flow first increases linearly and then increases exponentially.
The optimum operational point here could be KTAS=460.
Prescriptive analytics
How can we make it happen?
10. Advanced analytics is a powerful method to optimize the performance
and reduce the environmental impact of engineering systems.
Neural Designer is a professional tool for advanced anaytics specialized in
engineering applications.
Conclusions