Impact of ADS-B Link Characteristics on the Performances of In-Trail Following Aircraft

Ivanescu, Dan; Hoffman, Eric; Zeghal, Karim

doi:10.2514/6.2002-4933

Cited by 12 publications

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“…Indeed, despite the fact that current aircraft's Flight Management System (FMS) have the ability to navigate over predefined paths, they are not capable to meet delay over meter fixes relatively to another aircraft. As far as such a new capability onboard aircraft needs some surveillance capabilities, and more specifically the knowledge of the leading aircraft position and velocity, the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is a potential key enabler to support this surveillance requirement 4 .…”

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confidence: 99%

A sliding mode control design for aircraft rendezvous at meter fix

Miquel¹,

Mora‐Camino²,

Nationale³

et al. 2005

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

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The delegation to the flight crew of some tasks currently performed by air traffic controllers provides new perspectives to potentially increase air traffic control efficiency. More specifically, the task of establishing properly spaced landing sequences is very demanding in heavy traffic conditions for the air traffic controllers in charge of the terminal maneuvering area. Automatic merging and station keeping operations could relieve air traffic controller of providing time consuming radar vectoring instructions. The objective of this communication is to provide technical insight into the airborne devices and algorithms which may be used onboard aircraft to automatically achieve a specified distance or delay with respect to another aircraft at a specified meter fix. A nonlinear control law based on sliding mode control is proposed to control the lateral motion of the trailing aircraft. The design is followed by two illustrative examples which show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A sliding mode control design for aircraft rendezvous at meter fix

Miquel¹,

Mora‐Camino²,

Nationale³

et al. 2005

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“…The feasibility of such a relative guidance device is based on the ability of each aircraft to broadcast and receive suitable navigation data thanks to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) 2 . Among those navigation data, identification, position, altitude, groundspeed, vertical speed and track angle are of interest for the design of the relative guidance control law.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simplified Backstepping Design for 3D Time-based Aircraft Relative Guidance

Miquel¹,

Mora‐Camino²,

Casaux

et al. 2004

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

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The delegation to the flight crew of some tasks currently performed by air traffic controllers provides new perspectives to potentially increase air traffic control capacity. The objective of this communication is to provide technical insight into the airborne devices and algorithms which may be used to automatically perform merging and station keeping operations. Indeed, these maneuvers in the field of civil aviation seem difficult to be performed manually and may result in this case in an increase of the flight crew workload. Nevertheless new automated functions onboard aircraft could help to overcome this limitation. This paper investigates the design of a new autopilot mode dedicated to merging and station keeping maneuvers behind a leading aircraft. The proposed relative guidance law considers a 3-D relative motion, including constant wind and lateral, longitudinal and vertical control. It is based on vectorial backstepping and takes advantage of the skewsymmetric matrix which appears in the relative motion equations. An alternative 'simplified' design based on a matrix form of the Young's inequality is also presented in order to simplify the computation of the guidance law. Then, an illustrative example is discussed and conclusions are raised.

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“…Enhancement of flight crew airbome traffic situational awareness is also expected with associated safety benefits. The feasibility of such a relative guidance device is based on the ability of each aircraft to broadcast and receive suitable navigation data thanks to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) [2]. Among those navigation data, identification, position, speed and heading are of interest for the design of the relative guidance control law.…”

Section: Figure 1 Radar Display At Paris-charles De Gaullementioning

confidence: 99%