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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 E-CONTRAIL project kicks off
The E-CONTRAIL project, an exploratory research funded by the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking, was launched on 13 June. Coordinated by Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) and in partnership with the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA), and the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI), the project aims toContinue reading “The E-CONTRAIL project kicks off”
The MSCA postdoctoral fellowship project PERSEVERE begins
We are proud to share the news about the start of the PERSEVERE project, which is framed within the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships. Led by Dr. Alvaro Moreno Soto and advised by Prof. Manuel Soler and Prof. Stefano Discetti, PERSEVERE started on June 1st focusing on advancing severe weather prediction with an innovative research that combinesContinue reading “The MSCA postdoctoral fellowship project PERSEVERE begins”
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””