TR2024-079

Aircraft Approach Management using Reachability and Dynamic Programming

    •  Vinod, A.P., Yamazaki, S., Chakrabarty, A., Yoshikawa, N., Di Cairano, S., "Aircraft Approach Management using Reachability and Dynamic Programming", American Control Conference (ACC), June 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-079 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Vinod2024jun,
      • author = {{Vinod, Abraham P. and Yamazaki, Sachiyo and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and Di Cairano, Stefano}},
      • title = {Aircraft Approach Management using Reachability and Dynamic Programming},
      • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = jun,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-079}
      • }
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  • Research Areas:

    Control, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Optimization

Abstract:

We study the problem of designing safe trajectories for aircraft approach management. Our tractable method designs aircraft trajectories that 1) use only limited admissible maneuvers near the airport, 2) maintains a user-specified separation between aircraft during the entire duration of the approach, and 3) minimizes deviations from user-specified times of arrival at the airport. We use a first-come, first-serve frame- work to design the trajectories for multiple aircraft by solving a collection of single-aircraft trajectory planning problems. We ensure the safety of the overall system by imposing reachability- based constraints on each planning problem. We identify the constraints as well as the trajectories for aircraft using dynamic programming in a three-dimensional space. We validate the efficacy and safety of our method using historical data from Japan’s Haneda International Airport.