This paper presents a methodology to determine the optimal path of airplanes in order to avoid weather hazard and reduce pollutant emissions. To this aim, the aircraft movement is modeled as a finite state automaton: the state is a vector describing the space aircraft position, its airspeed and heading; the outputs are the aircraft emissions of CO2 and NOx. In the described framework, the aircraft path planning problem is defined as a finite-horizon open loop optimization problem that searches for an optimal transition state path of the automaton by minimizing CO2 and NOx emissions. To this aim, an integer multi-objective programming problem is formulated and solved. Experimental results show an example of a path optimization and a comparison with a real airplane trajectory.
Flight Path Optimization for Minimizing Emissions and Avoiding Weather Hazard / Fanti, M. P.; Mininel, S.; Nolich, M.; Stecco, G.; Ukovich, W.; Bernabò, M.; Serafino, G.. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 4567-4572. (Intervento presentato al convegno American Control Conference, ACC 2014 tenutosi a Portland, OR nel December 4-6, 2014) [10.1109/ACC.2014.6858923].
Flight Path Optimization for Minimizing Emissions and Avoiding Weather Hazard
M. P. Fanti;
2014-01-01
Abstract
This paper presents a methodology to determine the optimal path of airplanes in order to avoid weather hazard and reduce pollutant emissions. To this aim, the aircraft movement is modeled as a finite state automaton: the state is a vector describing the space aircraft position, its airspeed and heading; the outputs are the aircraft emissions of CO2 and NOx. In the described framework, the aircraft path planning problem is defined as a finite-horizon open loop optimization problem that searches for an optimal transition state path of the automaton by minimizing CO2 and NOx emissions. To this aim, an integer multi-objective programming problem is formulated and solved. Experimental results show an example of a path optimization and a comparison with a real airplane trajectory.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.