Comparison of Interpolation Algorithms for Speed Control in Air Traffic Management

Abstract

With air traffic movements at a high level, techniques to assist air traffic management using computers are being investigated. One technique in particular being studied is the early adjustment of the speed of arriving aircraft so that the rate of flow near to the airports is closely matched to landing capacity. A Speed Control Adviser has been developed which allocates a landing time to each inbound aircraft. Once the estimated landing time is known, the speed the aircraft must fly needs to be calculated. This cannot be done directly and interpolation using a suitable polynomial approximation is used. This memorandum investigates four polynomials and examines their effectiveness at providing a good estimate with minimum computations. Great Britain.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 17, 1988
Accession Number
ADA206314

Entities

People

  • A. J. Budd

Organizations

  • Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Controllers
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Equations
  • Foreign Languages
  • Intellectual Property
  • Interpolation
  • Iterations
  • Mach Number
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Polynomials
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Traffic

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation