21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-6.5.2

TOWARDS AUTOMATED AIRCRAFT'S TAXIING PHASES

Siguerdidjane H. B., Pelegrin M.*
SUPELEC, France; * Academie de l'Air et de l'Espace, France

Keywords: automated, aircraft, taxiiing

In this work, we are interested in automated aircraft's taxiing phases within the next decade, particularly for busy airports. The main objective is to automate all the ground motions from the gates to a given position of the runway exit in the near future. This is to optimize the whole movements on the airport according to a criterion which will tend to maximize the number of movements per hour. In this paper, it is studied automated steering vehicles, unlike our previous work on this subject, an another formulation, which displays a certain robustness with respect to any perturbations, is presented. In this first stage of the work, simulation results are given to show the obtained performances of the system.

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