Airplane Speed Control: A Fuzzy Logic Approach

Air traffic management is a complex system that includes aircrafts, crew, air traffic controllers, automation, traffic rules and climatic conditions that can affect in decision making during the different flight phases (Callantine, 2004). The human factor is the most relevant aspect in this management process, involving controllers working under severe stress and an increasing flow of aircrafts, as well as the aircraft crew and passengers’ safety that has become a major issue due to the decrease of the cost of aerial transportation that have directly impacted in the increasing number of flights leading to very high density air traffic worldwide.