An Approach to Semiautomated Optimal Scheduling and Holding Strategies for Air Control,

Abstract

The paper considers the problem of coordinating the traffic flow and holding patterns of N aircraft which desire to land in a single runway. A distance separation is to be enforced over the outer marker. It is shown that this problem can be attacked as a variation of a linear-quadratic optimal control problem. The solution of this optimization problem can be used to indicate which aricraft can accomplish headway corrections by velocity control, and which require to undergo path stretching or holding maneuvers. The gradual implementation of these strategies in current and evolutionary ATC systems will also be discussed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0721474

Entities

People

  • Lynn W. Porter
  • Michael Athans

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Engineering
  • Maneuvers
  • Military Operations
  • Motion
  • Optimization
  • Physical Properties
  • Production Engineering
  • Scheduling (Production)

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Theoretical Analysis.