Accounting for the Effect of Ground Delay on Commercial Formation Flight

Tom E Kent; Arthur G Richards

doi:10.1109/CONTROL.2014.6915123

Accounting for the Effect of Ground Delay on Commercial Formation Flight

Tom E Kent, Arthur G Richards

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Abstract

This paper explores the impact ground delay can have on designing and executing rendezvous operations such as formation flight. For a given formation pairing the route is fixed, speed policies are then generated to compensate for uncertainty in take-off times. Value Iteration is used to solve both the deterministic and stochastic Dynamic Programming problem for an entire state-space. The final optimal policies determine what course of action aircraft should take for any realization of delay. Finally a comparative case study shows that even with delay, formation flights can reach expected savings of 6.1% against flying solo.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CONTROL.2014.6915123
Publication status	Published - 9 Jul 2014
Event	2014 UKACC International Conference on Control - Loughborough, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Jul 2014 → 11 Jul 2014

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Conference	2014 UKACC International Conference on Control
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Loughborough
Period	9/07/14 → 11/07/14

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