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””
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New publication: “Robust 4D climate-optimal flight planning in structured airspace using parallelized simulation on GPUs: ROOST V1.0.”
We are glad to share our latest research paper titled “Robust 4D climate-optimal flight planning in structured airspace using parallelized simulation on GPUs: ROOST V1.0”, published in the journal of Geoscientific Model Development and writen by Abolfazl Simorgh as main author. Abstract The climate impact of non-CO2 emissions, which are responsible for two-thirds of aviation radiativeContinue reading “New publication: “Robust 4D climate-optimal flight planning in structured airspace using parallelized simulation on GPUs: ROOST V1.0.””
Latest paper: “Linear Contrails Detection, Tracking and Matching with Aircraft Using Geostationary Satellite and Air Traffic Data”
We celebrate the publication of this journal paper on Trajectory Optimization and Climate Change led by Rémi Chevallier, industrial PhD student at ENAC – Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile supervised by Daniel Delahaye and Manuel Soler. Abstract Climate impact models of the non-CO2 emissions of aviation are still subject to significant uncertainties. Condensation trails, or contrails, are one of these non-CO2 effects.Continue reading “Latest paper: “Linear Contrails Detection, Tracking and Matching with Aircraft Using Geostationary Satellite and Air Traffic Data””
New publication: “Time-Fuel-Optimal Navigation of a Commercial Aircraft in Cruise with Heading and Throttle Controls using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle”
A new paper has been published by the Aircraft Operations Lab UC3M in the field of aircraft trajectory optimisation. It is authored by the PhD student Amin Jafarimoghaddam and supervised by Manuel Soler. ABSTRACT In this research, we consider the commercial aircraft trajectory optimization problem for a general cruise model with arbitrary spatial wind fieldsContinue reading “New publication: “Time-Fuel-Optimal Navigation of a Commercial Aircraft in Cruise with Heading and Throttle Controls using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle””
The FlyATM4E project, “a SESAR success story”
One of the SESAR Exploratory Research projects in which the Aircraft Operations Lab has participated to address the climate impact of aviation is FlyATM4E. The project studied flight data during different weather scenarios, as well as vertical and horizontal flight paths, to identify climate-optimised aircraft trajectories. The optimisation process showed a potential reduction of non-CO2Continue reading “The FlyATM4E project, “a SESAR success story””