27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS2010-5.2ST1

A GENERIC FRAMEWORK FOR MULTI-PARAMETER OPTIMISATION OF FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES

K. Chircop, M. Xuereb, D. Zammit-Mangion*, E. Cachia
Univ. of Malta, Malta; *Cranfield Univ., UK

Keywords: trajectory optimization, multidisciplinary design optimization, integration framework, optimization framework

The paper presents the concept and design of a generic integration framework being developed within the European Program Clean Sky under the Systems for Green Operations Integrated Technology Demonstrator for the use of trajectory optimisation. The main features are functional flexibility of ease of use.

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