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Flight Trajectory Planning for Fixed-Wing Aircraft in Loss of Thrust Emergencies

Loss of thrust emergencies—e.g., induced by bird/drone strikes or fuel exhaustion—create the need for dynamic data-driven flight trajectory planning to advise pilots or control UAVs. While total loss of thrust (gliding) trajectories to nearby airports can be pre-computed for all initial points in a 3D flight plan, dynamic aspects such as partial power, wind, and airplane surface damage must be ...

Solus: An Autonomous Aircraft for Flight Control and Trajectory Planning Research

The University of Michigan has developed a xed-wing model aircraft (Solus) with an embedded control system to develop and demonstrate UAV technology. The analytical objective of this project is the development of intelligent ight control and trajectory planning techniques, focusing on automated fault detection and recovery. Our experimental objective is to implement and evaluate these technique...

Steady Aircraft Flight and Aircraft Performance

Trajectory Management for Aircraft Noise Mitigation

This paper gives an overview of aircraft trajectory management aimed at producing noise abatement procedures. Area Navigation (RNAV) concepts play an important role in the design of flexible and, therefore, noise friendly depart or approach procedures. In addition, the lowest dispersion of RNAV tracks help to contain noise footprints in a smaller area if compared with footprints that are produc...

Flight Trajectory Path Planning

The paper describes an application of the A* algorithm for flight path planning for airplanes with defined motion dynamics operating in a continuous three-dimensional space constrained by existing physical obstacles. The presented A* algorithm modification provides significant acceleration (reduction of the state space) of the path planning process. The described algorithm is able to find a pat...