As a part of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is developing an advanced airborne Merging and Spacing (M and S) concept utilizing satellite-based surveillance information provided by Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). The M and S concept is defined as Airborne Spacing-Flight deck Interval Management (ASPA-FIM), which includes both a ground component and an airborne component including a speed control algorithm as a part of the Interval Management (IM) capability. The ground based function establishes a sequence for an IM aircraft conducting ASPA-FIM procedure to merge behind another designated target aircraft at a waypoint with a desired spacing interval, and then maintain the desired spacing interval. The aircraft achieve the spacing requirement through speed commands generated by Interval Management (IM) equipment in the aircraft.
Modeling ADS-B Position and Velocity Errors for Airborne Merging and Spacing in Interval Management Application
2010
20 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Logistics, Military Facilities, & Supplies , Navigation Systems , Random variables , Air traffic , Air transportation , Aircrafts , Measurement , Sense and avoid systems , Control systems engineering , Data analysis , Global positioning systems , Markov processes , Accuracy , Control systems , Flight decks , Ground control stations , Probability distributions , Simulations , Airborne , Equations , Errors , Flight
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