Design of foreign object debris detecting and monitoring using two sets of sensor system

Abstract

Foreign object debris (FOD) is a foreign object that should not be on the runway which might cause the risk of aircraft crashes and put the lives of humans at risk. In this research, we designed a system to detect FOD using two sets of a sensor system for a wider, area of detection. This research was commenced by designed the entire hardware and software and tested the system. The object used as the testing object were rock, bolts, plastic bottles as well as iron pieces with varied distances and position angles. Based on the testing result, both sets of sensor system could detect objects with distance accuracy on the sensor system set of FOD 1 and FOD 2 consecutively were 98% and 94% for rock, 97% and 96% for bolts, 96% and 94% for plastic bottles, 96% and 94% for the iron pieces. The accuracy of angle measurement on the sets of sensor system FOD 1 and FOD 2 consecutively were 96% for rock, 98% for bolts, 97% and 95% for plastic bottles, 97% and 94% for the iron pieces. Monitoring system testing was carried out using black box testing and website response speed test towards the variation of database number.