A Weather Routing Tool for Unmanned and Manned Aircraft Systems

Abstract

A new Aviation Weather Routing Tool (AWRT) developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) addresses the complexity of routing aircraft around adverse weather conditions for a 4-D flight route. The AWRT applies rules-based and physics-based prediction methods to generate atmospheric impacts along the given flight path and for the required forecast period. A route optimization scheme is then used to determine the best alternate routing for aircraft missions if adverse weather will be encountered. The AWRT also takes into account all aspects of the flight mission profile, from launch to recovery, at waypoints along the route, and at all flight altitudes, thus providing a true mission planning and execution routing tool for all aircraft.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA513868

Entities

People

  • David I. Knapp
  • Ed Measure
  • Terry C. Jameson

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Color Coding
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Flight Paths
  • Military Research
  • New Mexico
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Operations Research
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Space