The Morning Report: Advanced Proactive Safety and System Monitoring
Winner of a 2005 R&D 100 Award
Overview The Morning Report
(5-minute movie/requires shockwave plug-in; a text transcript is also available.)
Description:
The Morning Report is a data-intensive airline safety and information tool that gives aviation personnel more insight than ever before into overall flight patterns and subtle flight characteristics. Using sophisticated multivariate statistical algorithms, the system analyzes massive amounts of data from thousands of airline flights overnight, generating an intuitively structured report every morning. The powerful algorithms that are the backbone of the analyses are combined with user-intuitive software to enable the user to drill down, and understand, the details underlying any portion of any flight. No currently available technology provides such ready access from the top level overview to the finest details of each flight.
Submitting Organizations and Developers:
Pacific Northwest National Laborary, Thomas A. Ferryman and Brett G. Amidan
NASA Ames Research Center, Irving C. Statler and Thomas R. Chidester
Flight Safety Consultants, Robert E. Lynch
ProWorks Corporation, Gary L. Prothero
Safe Flight, Robert E. Lawrence
Battelle Memorial Institute, Loren J. Rosenthal
Supporting Documentation:
- Overview (5-minute movie/requires shockwave plug-in) The Morning Report, PNWD-SA-7028.
- Amidan BG, and TA Ferryman. 2005. "Atypical Event and Typical Pattern Detection within Complex Systems." In 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conference, art. no. 11.0701, pp. 1-12. IEEE Conference Publications, Manhattan Beach, CA. (view the accompanying presentation)
- NASA Award for Group Achievement signed by then-NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin.
- Testimonial, Alaska Airlines signed by Dave Prewitt, Vice-President; Safety & Security.
- Testimonial: SAGEM Avionics, Inc. signed by Laurent Bloch, Director.
- Web site references:
- NASA DEVELOPS NEW TOOL FOR AIRLINE ACCIDENT PREVENTION, Ames Research Center Press Release #04-87AR (09/04)
- APMS - Aviation Performance Measuring System
- APMS > Approach
- APMS > Benefits
- Case Study: Improving Flight Safety Analysis
- NASA DEVELOPS NEW TOOL FOR AIRLINE ACCIDENT PREVENTIONNASA News Release #04-297 (09/04)
- Air Expertises: NASA Develops New Tool For Airline Accident Prevention (09/04)
- Aviation News In The World (11/04)
- Kansas City infoZine: NASA Develops New Tool for Airline Accident Prevention, (09/04)
- SpaceBanter.com: NASA develops new tool for airline accident prevention, (09/04)
Patents
NASA has been granted three patents for technology invented to support The Morning Report:
- Statler IC, TA Ferryman, BG Amidan, PD Whitney, AM White, AR Willse SK Cooley JG Jay, RE Lawrence, C Mosbrucker, LJ Rosenthal, RE Lynch, TR Chidester, GL Prothero, AL Andrei, TP Romanowski, DE Robin, and JW Prothero. August 2005. "Identification of atypical flight patterns." U.S. Patent 6,937,924.
- Statler IC, TA Ferryman, BG Amidan, PD Whitney, AM White, AR Willse SK Cooley JG Jay, RE Lawrence, C Mosbrucker, LJ Rosenthal, RE Lynch, TR Chidester, GL Prothero, AL Andrei, TP Romanowski, DE Robin, and JW Prothero. April 2007. "Information display system for atypical flight phase." U.S. Patent 7,206,674.
- Chidester TR, RE Lynch, RE Lawrence, BG Amidan, TA Ferryman, DA Drew, RJ Ainsworth, GL Prothero, TP Romanowski, L Bloch, WL Craine, and VJ Zaccardi. July 2006. "Energy index for aircraft maneuvers." U.S. Patent 7,075,457.
Contact Person:
Tom Ferryman, PNNL, tom.ferryman@pnl.gov, 509-375-3888