Optimization of Aircraft Climb Trajectory considering Environmental Impact under RTA Constraints

Trajectory optimization under kinematical constraints for moving target search

Various recent events in the Mediterranean sea have shown the enormous importance of maritime search-and-rescue missions. By reducing the time to find floating victims, the number of casualties can be reduced. A major improvement can be achieved by employing unmanned aerial systems for autonomous search missions. In this context, the need for efficient search trajectory planning methods arises....

VIATO-visual interactive aircraft trajectory optimization

An approach toward the automated solution of aircraft trajectory optimization problems is introduced and implemented in an interactive program called visual interactive aircraft trajectory optimization (VIATO). This MS Windowscompatible software produces minimum time trajectories to a fixed or moving target. It is easy to use by nonexperts as no previous knowledge of the methods of optimal cont...

Trajectory Compression under Network Constraints

The wide usage of location aware devices, such as GPS-enabled cellphones or PDAs, generates vast volumes of spatiotemporal streams modeling objects movements, raising management challenges, such as efficient storage and querying. Therefore, compression techniques are inevitable also in the field of moving object databases. Moreover, due to erroneous measurements from GPS devices, the problem of...

Singular Arc Time-Optimal Climb Trajectory of Aircraft in a Two-Dimensional Wind Field

This paper presents a study of a minimum time-to-climb trajectory analysis for aircraft flying in a twodimensional altitude dependent wind field. The time optimal control problem possesses a singular control structure when the lift coefficient is taken as a control variable. A singular arc analysis is performed to obtain an optimal control solution on the singular arc. Using a time-scale separa...

Minimum Fuel Trajectory in a 3/ D Time Scheduled Climb