The scheduling and execution of ramp area operations is a challenging task. Unlike aircraft maneuvers on taxiways, ramp area aircraft maneuvers are typically not confined to well-defined trajectories. The stochastic nature can force ramp area aircraft to slow down or stop along routes to the taxiway spot to avoid a loss of separation. To address this, we provide a tool for ramp controllers to h...

Due to an anticipated increase in air traffic during the next decade, air traffic control in busy airports is one of the main challenges confronting the controllers in the near future. Since the runway is often a bottleneck in an airport system, there is a great interest in optimizing the use of the runway. The most important factors in aircraft landing modeling are time and cost. For this reas...

Results on polynomial fixed order controller design are extended to SISO gainscheduling with guaranteed stability andH∞ performance over the whole scheduling parameter range. Salient features of the approach are (a) the use of polynomials as modeling objects; (b) the use of flexible LMI conditions allowing polynomial dependence of the open-loop system and controller transfer functions in the sc...

This paper explores the problem of managing movements of aircraft along the surface of busy airports. Airport surface management is a complex logistics problem involving the coordination of humans and machines. The work described here arose from the idea that autonomous towing vehicles for taxiing aircraft could offer a solution to the ’capacity problem’ for busy airports, the problem of gettin...

The aircraft routing is the process of assigning each individual aircraft within each fleet to flight legs. The Federal Aviation Rules require the maintenance of all the aircrafts after specified hours of period as mandatory. The minimum total maintenance cost is provided as a result of the lost flight time which is brought to minimum. The common policies in this business sector follow the prac...

This paper provides a lifecycle cost-benefit analysis of the use of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) systems in future or present commercial aircraft. The approach considers individual aircraft component’s failure behavior, prognostic performance levels including prognostic errors, and condition-based maintenance (CBM) concepts. The proposed methodology is based on a discrete-event simul...

With the availability of comprehensively integrated Airport Operational Databases, as motivated by the emergence of Collaborative Decision Making for example, new forms of automated information processing become available: Particularly, proactive Decision Support Systems can be developed based on the concepts of Artificial Intelligence. From various potential fields of application, this paper f...

The Federal Aviation Administration hopes to convert air traffic management to Trajectory Based Operations (TBO), under which aircraft flight plans are known to computer systems which aid in scheduling and separation. However, few aircraft flying today have equipment designed to support TBO. We conducted a human-in-the-loop simulation of TBO using current fleet equipage. Three aircraft equipage...