The fleet assignment problem (FAP) assigns the type of airplane at each flight segment. Since airplane is an expensive resource, poor fleet assignment can cause a great increase in costs of airlines. There are so many consideration which should be tackled in formulation of a FAP problem, especially the parameters regarding to the airplanes. This paper presents a novel, mixed integer programing ...

the application of a flight simulator with six degree of freedom (6dof)) in design and analysis of rocket systems is essential. the calibration of a 6dof flight simulator is a challenging problem. this paper focuses on the calibration of a flight simulator and intends to answer the following questions: 1) does experimental design have significant impact on calibration quality? if so, which expe...

Problem Statement Airlines daily face the problem of how to recover when a crew's schedule is disrupted by unplanned events such as maintenance problems or severe weather conditions. These problems create a domino effect and several flights may be delayed or canceled, and aircraft and crews may miss the rest of their assigned flights. Airline coordinators then have to find a minimal cost reassi...

This paper is submitted as the requirement for the final project report for the CS229 project. However, it is well over the suggested length because it is also intended as a comprehensive progress report of the Formation Flight project being carried out in the AI Lab. A great deal of effort has been put in getting two airplanes to fly autonomously, and our goal is to document our work so that s...

This paper describes the application of the task priority Null Space Behavioral technique to the coordinated control of a team of flying vehicles with hovering capabilities, like helicopters or quadrotors, in the presence of obstacles and no-fly zones. Once a flight mission is assigned to the team in terms of a target region to reach, each flying vehicle is required to accomplish four tasks wit...

To monitor large areas or simultaneously measure multiple points, multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) must be flown in formation. To perform such flights, sensor information generated by each UAV should be shared via communications. Although a variety of studies have focused on the algorithms for formation flight, these studies have mainly demonstrated the performance of formation flight u...

The forward position kinematics (FPK) of a parallel manipulator with new architecture supposed to be used as a moving mechanism in a flight simulator project is discussed in this paper. The closed form solution for the FPK problem of the manipulator is first determined. It has, then, been shown that there are at most 24 solutions for FPK problem. This result has been verified by using other tec...

The aerodynamic formation flight, which is also known as aircraft wake-surfing for efficiency (AWSE), enables to harvest the energy inherent in another aircraft’s wake vortex. As thrust of trailing can be reduced during cruise resulting benefit traded longer flight time, larger range, less fuel consumption, or cost savings accordingly. Furthermore, amount and location emissions caused by are su...