Abstract—Ground traffic optimization is a major issue of air traffic management: optimal ground circulation could decrease flight delays and consequently decrease costs and increase passenger wellness. This paper proposes a planning algorithm for ground traffic based on contract reservation. This algorithm is iterative: it plans aircraft itinerary one after the other. A first version is describ...

This work is motivated by a particular scheduling problem that is faced by logistics centers that perform aircraft maintenance and modification. Here we concentrate on a single facility (hangar) which is equipped with several work stations (bays). Specifically, a number of jobs have already been scheduled for processing at the facility; the starting times, durations, and work station assignment...

Consider a Hidden Markov model (HMM) where a single Markov chain is observed by a number of noisy sensors. Due to computational or communication constraints, at each time instant, one can select only one of the noisy sensors. The sensor scheduling problem involves designing algorithms for choosing dynamically at each time instant which sensor to select to provide the next measurement. Each meas...

The flutter phenomenon is a potentially destructive aeroelastic vibration studied for the design of aircraft structures as it limits flight envelope aircraft. aim this work to propose heuristic piezoelectric actuator-based controller suppression in order extend allowable speed range structure. Based on numerical model three degrees freedom (3DOF) airfoil and taking into account FEM V-stack actu...

In this paper, we consider priced-timed automata based exploration for resource-optimal scheduling. Resource-optimal scheduling problems can be seen as an application of real-time model checking in priced domains. State spaces for large problems can easily go beyond the main memory capacity. In this paper, we propose the use of secondary storage devices such as harddisk to store the generated s...

Scheduling, or planning, is widely recognized as a very important step in several domains such as high level synthesis, real-time systems, and every-day applications. Given a problem described by a number of actions and their relationships, finding a schedule, or a plan, means to find a way to perform all the actions minimizing a specific cost function. The goal of this paper is to develop, ana...

In this paper we present an optimisation model for airport taxi scheduling. We introduce a mixed-integer programming formulation to represent the movement of aircraft on the surface of the airport. In the optimal schedule delays due to taxi conflicts are minimised. We discuss implementation issues for solving this optimisation problem. Numerical results with real data of Amsterdam Airport Schip...

Every day planners and dispatcher in airports deal with different decisions related to the movement of aircraft. These decisions usually involve the use of fixed resources like runways, stands (parking positions), and passenger gates. Due to the increasing flow of passengers, these resources are becoming scarce and some airports have experimented a degradation of the services offered. One clear...

The automation of engineering processes through Knowledge Based Engineering and Design Automation methods and technologies can provide significant savings in project scheduling and cost, increasing competitiveness in a changing aerospace market. In this paper we present outcomes of a research project aimed at improving engineering automation capability through development of a tool for automati...