Abstract:

The amount of methods used in route planning (RP) for aircrafts has greatly increased during the last few years. It is difficult to master these methods and make a fast choice to use among them, which results from the lack of domain knowledge representation and reuse for RP. To achieve the domain knowledge reuse and efficient planning process, ontology is adopted to describe the concepts and the relationship between them. An ontology defined by web ontology language (OWL) for RP dubbed ONTRP is developed to specify the domain knowledge and fill the gap between conceptual model for RP and software implementation of RP. Moreover, ONTRP can help people make an analysis and comparison between two RP algorithms by means of automatic reasoning and establish the models for RP efficiently.