The problem of scheduling aircraft landings on one or more runways is an interesting problem that is similar to a machine job scheduling problem with sequence-dependent processing times and with earliness and tardiness penalties. The aim is to optimally land a set of planes on one or several runways in such a way that separation criteria between all pairs of planes (not just successive ones) ar...

We study a scheduling problem, motivated by air-traffic control, in which a set of aircrafts are about to land on a single runway. When coming close to the landing area of the airport, a set of time windows in which the landing is possible, is automatically assigned to each aircraft. The objective is to maximize the minimum time elapsed between any two consecutive landings. We study the complex...

We study the problem of computing trajectories of a set of aircraft in their final descent, right before landing. Trajectories must be compatible with aircraft dynamics while keeping distance between aircraft large enough. Our objective is to determine the order in which aircraft land as well as their exact trajectories in order to minimize the maximal landing time. We study a highly simplified...

This paper studies the multiple runway aircraft landing problem. The aim is to schedule arriving aircraft to available runways at the airport. Landing times lie within predefined time windows and safety separation constraints between two successive landings must be satisfied. We propose a new approach for solving the problem. The method is based on an approximation of the separation time matrix...

This paper addresses the real-time problem of coordinating aircraft ground and air operations in an airport area. At a congested airport, airborne decisions are related to take-o↵ and landing operations, while ground (taxiway) decisions consist of scheduling aircraft movements between the gates and the runways. Since the runways are the initial/terminal points of both decisions, coordinated act...

We describe two schemes for scheduling an integrated flight and propulsion control system for an experimental vertical/short take-off and landing (V/STOL) aircraft concept in the acceleration from hover (0–120 kn) flight phase. Multivariable integrated flight and propulsion controllers are designed at several points over the V/STOL envelope and implemented as exact plant observers with state fe...

This paper addresses the autolanding guidance and control problem for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAV) based on the information provided by the onboard Navigation System. The proposed solution relies on a path-following and velocity profile tracking controller synthesized using an accurate aircraft dynamic model, referred to as SymAirDyn, which was designed with the objective of exploiting th...

This paper focuses on the aircraft landing optimization problem where both the landing routes and the landing order of aircrafts should be optimized to minimize an occupancy time of airport, and proposes its optimization method which is robust to dynamical situations such as weather condition change and other aircrafts’ landing routes change. As a difficulty of this optimization problem, approp...

The forward looking radar imaging task is a practical and challenging problem for adverse weather aircraft landing industry. Deconvolution method can realize the forward looking imaging but it often leads to the noise amplification in the radar image. In this paper, a forward looking radar imaging based on deconvolution method is presented for adverse weather aircraft landing. We first present ...