Airport Bird-strike Risk Assessment Model with Grey Clustering Evaluation Method

Bird strike, a common aviation accident, endangers aircrafts. A real-time bird-strike risk assessment system is a guarantee for airport safe management. This paper adapts grey clustering evaluation into a new real-time method with expert experience, Bird-strike risk assessment model (BRAM). Timeliness is a characteristic and bird-strike expert experience improves the effectiveness of BRAM. Bird-strike experts are invited to grade the importance of different risk indices, which are essential in BRAM. The inputs of the model are bird information and aircraft information. Afterwards, BRAM outputs bird-strike risk level timely and dynamically. Meanwhile, bird-strike management advices are also outputted in accordance with the risk level, and delivered to air traffic control of the airport.