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  • Despite advancements in aircraft manufacturing, human factors, particularly fatigue, remain a significant cause of flight accidents.
  • The article introduces a model using convolutional neural networks (CNN) to recognize pilot fatigue through analyzing facial attributes of flight trainees during simulations.
  • The proposed PSO-CNN algorithm achieved a 93.9% recognition rate for detecting fatigue levels, demonstrating its effectiveness compared to other machine learning models.

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Even though the capability of aircraft manufacturing has improved, human factors still play a pivotal role in flight accidents. For example, fatigue-related accidents are a common factor in human-led accidents. Hence, pilots' precise fatigue detections could help increase the flight safety of airplanes. The article suggests a model to recognize fatigue by implementing the convolutional neural network (CNN) by implementing flight trainees' face attributions. First, the flight trainees' face attributions are derived by a method called the land-air call process when the flight simulation is run. Then, sixty-eight points of face attributions are detected by employing the Dlib package. Fatigue attribution points were derived based on the face attribution points to construct a model called EMF to detect face fatigue. Finally, the proposed PSO-CNN algorithm is implemented to learn and train the dataset, and the network algorithm achieves a recognition ratio of 93.9% on the test set, which can efficiently pinpoint the flight trainees' fatigue level. Also, the reliability of the proposed algorithm is validated by comparing two machine learning models.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11375052PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-71192-xDOI Listing

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