José Adrián Rodríguez Fonollosa, researcher of the TALP, rewarded by General Electric
12 May 2014
The researcher and professor José Adrián Rodríguez Fonollosa, of the
José Adrián Rodríguez Fonollosa, professor and researcher of the UPC, showing the screen where sees the diagram of the winning model.
Develop an innovative solution that allow to the airlines determine the route of flight more efficient in real time can do save to the industry 3.000 million dollars to the year. In this sense, the model presented by the researcher José Adrián Rodríguez Fonollosa, of the Centre of Technologies and Applications of the Language and the Speech (TALP) -centre member of CIT UPC- and professor of the Department of Theory of the Signal and Communications of the UPC, has resulted to be until a 12 % more efficient in comparison with the group of data of real flights. This solution has won the second phase of the international contest Flight Quest, that summons the General company Electric. The prize is endowed with 100.000 dollars and the company will integrate the winning model in his system of flights.
With the collaboration of Alaska Airlines and by means of the platform of crowdsourcing Kaggel, has challenged to the scientific community of data, start up and companies to find a form to increase the efficiency of the flight in real time, reducing the delays and maximizando the profitability. The algorithms of the selected of the contest determine the most efficient routes, the speeds and the altitudes anytime of a flight taking into account variable like the limitations of the time, of the wind and of the aerial space.
