The Aircraft Operations Lab at UC3M is proud to highlight the remarkable achievement of María García, a promising young student currently pursuing her first year in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Leon, and a participant in the STEM Talent Girl program. Under the mentorship of our researcher, María Cerezo Magaña, this talented student hasContinue reading “Interview with María García: Top 5 Finalist in STEM Talent Girl for Research on Green Aviation”
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Concept of robust climate-friendly flight planning under multiple climate impact estimates
In this study, we address the problem of uncertainty-aware climate-optimized flight planning. The spatiotemporal dependency of aviation-induced non-CO2 climate effects can be incorporated into flight planning tools to generate climate-friendly flight plans. However, estimating climate impact is challenging and associated with high uncertainty. To ensure the effectiveness of such an operational measure, sources of uncertaintyContinue reading “Concept of robust climate-friendly flight planning under multiple climate impact estimates”
Robust 4D climate-optimal aircraft trajectory planning under weather-induced uncertainties: Free-routing airspace
Aircraft Operations Lab’s latest research paper, ‘Robust 4D climate-optimal aircraft trajectory planning under weather-induced uncertainties: Free-routing airspace’ has been published in the Journal of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. Writen by Abolfazl Simorgh as main author, our research within the ongoing RefMap project introduces an innovative methodology for climate-optimal flight trajectory planning inContinue reading “Robust 4D climate-optimal aircraft trajectory planning under weather-induced uncertainties: Free-routing airspace”
Advancing Multi-control Commercial Aircraft Trajectory Optimization
A new research applies singular control theory to optimize trajectories of commercial airplanes in a vertical plane. Our journal paper titled “Multi-control commercial aircraft trajectory optimization in a vertical plane with state-inequality constraints via singular control theory”, has been written by Amin Jafarimoghaddam as main author, and coauthored by prof. Manuel Soler, both from the AircraftContinue reading “Advancing Multi-control Commercial Aircraft Trajectory Optimization”
New publication: “Performance impact assessment of reducing separation minima for en-route operations”
Our paper titled “Performance impact assessment of reducing separation minima for en-route operations”, shows that a separation minima reduction can bring significant fuel savings, flight delay reduction, air traffic controller workload drop, and improve safety. It has been coauthored by prof. Javier García-Heras from the Aircraft Operations Lab UC3M and several researchers from Universidad PolitécnicaContinue reading “New publication: “Performance impact assessment of reducing separation minima for en-route operations””