Singular versus boundary arcs for aircraft trajectory optimization in climbing phase

DOI10.1051/M2AN/2022101zbMATH Open1514.49013arXiv2212.06694OpenAlexW4311266383MaRDI QIDQ6041052FDOQ6041052

Authors: O. Cots, J. Gergaud, Damien Goubinat, B. Wembe 

Publication date: 25 May 2023

Published in: ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, we are interested in optimal aircraft trajectories in climbing phase. We consider the cost index criterion which is a convex combination of the time-to-climb and the fuel consumption. We assume that the thrust is constant and we control the flight path angle of the aircraft. This optimization problem is modeled as a Mayer optimal control problem with a single-input affine dynamics in the control and with two pure state constraints, limiting the Calibrated AirSpeed (CAS) and the Mach speed. The candidates as minimizers are selected among a set of extremals given by the maximum principle. We first analyze the minimum time-to-climb problem with respect to the bounds of the state constraints, combining small time analysis, indirect multiple shooting and homotopy methods with monitoring. This investigation emphasizes two strategies: the common CAS/Mach procedure in aeronautics and the classical Bang-Singular-Bang policy in control theory. We then compare these two procedures for the cost index criterion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06694

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zbMATH Keywords

homotopy methodsingular arcsgeometric controloptimal control with state constraintsaircraft trajectory optimization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Control of mechanical systems (70Q05) Numerical methods based on necessary conditions (49M05) Geometric methods (93B27)

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