We address problem of on-line scheduling of the aircraft descent and approach trajectory. We formulate a general multiphase optimal control problem for optimization of the descent trajectory and review available methods of its solution. We develop a fast algorithm for solution of this problem using two key components: (i) fast inference of the dynamical and control variables of the descending trajectory from the low dimensional flight profile data and (ii) efficient local search for the resulting reduced dimensionality non-linear optimization problem. We compare the performance of the proposed algorithm with numerical solution obtained using optimal control toolbox General Pseudospectral Optimal Control Software. We present results of the solution of the scheduling problem for aircraft descent using novel fast algorithm and discuss its future applications.


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    Title :

    Fast Optimization for Aircraft Descent and Approach Trajectory


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    Conference:

    2017 Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society ; 2017 ; St. Petersburg, FL, United States


    Publication date :

    2017-10-02


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English






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