Embodiments provide for vertical flight path optimization by generating a plurality of waypoints with allowable parameters for a flightpath at which a course, including elements for heading, altitude, and speed, of an aircraft is adjustable; calculating a number of unique trajectories available based on the plurality of waypoints; when the number of unique trajectories is greater than a threshold number of trajectories, performing a probabilistic assessment of the unique trajectories to identify an elite set of trajectories that include those trajectories with efficiency metrics within an upper range of a set of assessed trajectories; identifying mobile waypoints in trajectories of the elite set of trajectories; performing a global optimal path assessment, wherein positions of mobile waypoints are adjusted within an associated trajectory to identify an optimal trajectory for the aircraft on the flightpath; and providing the optimal trajectory to the aircraft to follow the flightpath according to the optimal trajectory.
VERTICAL FLIGHTPATH OPTIMIZATION
OPTIMIERUNG VON VERTIKALEM FLUGWEG
OPTIMISATION DE TRAJECTOIRE DE VOL VERTICALE
2024-11-06
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
A robust adaptive flightpath reconstruction technique
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