Aircraft trajectory management and control with spatial reference

Hakim Bouadi (1) , Alexandre Carlos Brandao-Ramos (2) , Thierry Miquel (1) , Felix Mora-Camino (3)

1 MAIAA - ENAC - Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, Informatique et Automatique pour l'Aérien
2 MAIAA-AUTO - ENAC Equipe MAIAA-AUTO
3 LAAS-DISCO - Équipe DIagnostic, Supervision et COnduite

The purpose of this communication is to investigate the interest of using a spatial reference for performing first aircraft trajectory generation and then trajectory tracking while overfly or arrival time constraints are imposed. The adoption of a space reference leads us to rewrite the aircraft flight dynamics. Then an aircraft trajectory optimization problem, including time constraints, is formulated and discussed. Then a new nonlinear control structure for trajectory tracking based on spatial reference is developed and simulation results are displayed.

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Hakim Bouadi, Alexandre Carlos Brandao-Ramos, Thierry Miquel, Felix Mora-Camino. Aircraft trajectory management and control with spatial reference. ICCA 2013, 10th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Jun 2013, Hangzhou, China. pp 1592-1597 ; ISBN : 978-1-4673-4707-5, ⟨10.1109/ICCA.2013.6564909⟩. ⟨hal-00945176⟩