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Flow Matching Model Predicts Aircraft Trajectories with High Accuracy

Researchers have developed FlowATC, a novel architecture for predicting aircraft trajectories using flow matching techniques. Trained on over a million Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) trajectory windows from the San Francisco Bay Area, the model accurately reproduces historical traffic patterns and airspace structures. FlowATC outperforms baseline models like Long Short-Term Memory and Conditional Variational Autoencoders in trajectory prediction accuracy, with Conditional Flow Matching showing a slight edge over Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models. AI

IMPACT This research could enhance air traffic control decision-support tools by providing more accurate and probabilistic aircraft trajectory predictions.

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Flow Matching Model Predicts Aircraft Trajectories with High Accuracy

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Mathurin Petit, Emir Torun, Louis Brusset, Jordan Kam, Alexandre M. Bayen ·

    FlowATC: Aircraft Trajectory Prediction via Flow Matching

    arXiv:2609.16528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building accurate decision-support tools for next-generation air traffic control requires robust trajectory prediction models. We present a flow-matching architecture trained exclusively on historical aircraft trajectories, with no …