Aircraft ground handling: Analysis for automation

Diego Alonso Tabares (1) , Felix Mora-Camino (2)

1 AIRBUS Operations SAS
2 ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile

This paper presents the state of the art of aircraft ground handling at airports. The main opportunities for automation of these activities are pointed out. This leads to identify different challenges to be overcomed to build safe and efficient automated ground handling operations. Greatest opportunity for automation lies with automated docking of ground support equipment to aircraft in the short term, with further autonomous vehicles moving around the aircraft and automated systems within the aircraft later on.

Domaines: Automatique

Diego Alonso Tabares, Felix Mora-Camino. Aircraft ground handling: Analysis for automation. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, Jun 2017, Denver, United States. 16 p., ⟨10.2514/6.2017-3425⟩. ⟨hal-01568979⟩