Research Article

A High-Precision Fatigue Detecting Method for Air Traffic Controllers Based on Revised Fractal Dimension Feature

Table 3

Numbering rules of the speech database constructed in this study.

Number positionExpressionExplanation

1Control categoriesR: area control, A: approach control, T: tower control
2ATC’s rank5: Level 5, 4: Level 4, 3: Level 3, 2: Level 2, 1: Level 1, 0: Trainee
3–10Time (UTC)Numbers 3 to 6: starting time of work, Numbers 7 to 10: ending time of work
11SexF: female, M: male
12-13AgeArabic number representation of real age
14-15OrderNn:N is a digital indicator and n is an Arabic numeral, indicating the nth instruction issued by a ATC during working
16-17Status14th and 15th: voice command; 1: error, 2: ambiguity, 3: hesitation or pause, 4: fatigue

Note. (1) The Arabic numerals immediately following N are treated as a numbering number regardless of the number of digits. (2) Number position 14-15 indicates the speech state. When the speech is normal, there number position 16 is vacant.