Hybrid control in air traffic management systems
Sastry, S.
Meyer, G.
Tomlin, C.
Lygeros, J.
Godbole, D.
Pappas, G.
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA;
This paper appears in: Decision and Control, 1995., Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on
Publication Date: 13-15 Dec 1995
Volume: 2,
On page(s): 1478-1483 vol.2
Meeting Date: 12/13/1995 - 12/15/1995
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
ISBN: 0-7803-2685-7
References Cited: 9
INSPEC Accession Number: 5171241
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CDC.1995.480311
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
In a new collaborative project involving the University of
California, Berkeley, NASA Ames Research Center, and Honeywell Systems
Research Center, the authors have begun the study of hierarchical,
hybrid control systems in the framework of air traffic management
systems (ATMS). The need for a new ATMS arises from the overcrowding of
large urban airports and the need to more efficiently land and take off
larger numbers of aircraft without building new runways. Technological
advances that make a more advanced air traffic control system a reality
include the availability of relatively inexpensive and fast real time
computers (both on board the aircraft and in the control tower) and
global positioning systems. The usefulness of these technological
advances is currently limited by today's air traffic control system,
which involves the use of “freeways” in the Terminal Radar
Approach Control (TRACON) region around urban airports. These freeways
are set approach patterns to runways which do not allow for the
possibility of so-called “free flight” by an aircraft to its
destination. Limiting the aircraft trajectories in this manner results
in the addition of both planned and unplanned delays to air travel
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