Feedback Control of the National Airspace System
This paper proposes a general modeling framework adapted to the feedback control of traffic flows in Eulerian models of the National Airspace System. It is shown that the problems of scheduling and routing aircraft flows in the National Airspace System can be posed as the control of a network of q...
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2011
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| author | Ny, Jerome Le Balakrishnan, Hamsa |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Ny, Jerome Le Balakrishnan, Hamsa |
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| description | This paper proposes a general modeling framework adapted to the feedback control of traffic flows in Eulerian
models of the National Airspace System. It is shown that the problems of scheduling and routing aircraft flows in the
National Airspace System can be posed as the control of a network of queues with load-dependent service rates. Focus
can then shift to developing techniques to ensure that the aircraft queues in each airspace sector, which are an
indicator of the air traffic controller workloads, are kept small. This paper uses the proposed framework to develop
control laws that help prepare the National Airspace System for fast recovery from a weather event, given a
probabilistic forecast of capacities. In particular, the model includes the management of airport arrivals and
departures subject to runway capacity constraints, which are highly sensitive to weather disruptions. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/660982022-10-02T02:17:45Z Feedback Control of the National Airspace System Ny, Jerome Le Balakrishnan, Hamsa Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Balakrishnan, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Hamsa This paper proposes a general modeling framework adapted to the feedback control of traffic flows in Eulerian models of the National Airspace System. It is shown that the problems of scheduling and routing aircraft flows in the National Airspace System can be posed as the control of a network of queues with load-dependent service rates. Focus can then shift to developing techniques to ensure that the aircraft queues in each airspace sector, which are an indicator of the air traffic controller workloads, are kept small. This paper uses the proposed framework to develop control laws that help prepare the National Airspace System for fast recovery from a weather event, given a probabilistic forecast of capacities. In particular, the model includes the management of airport arrivals and departures subject to runway capacity constraints, which are highly sensitive to weather disruptions. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Contract ECCS-0745237) United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Contract NNA06CN24A) 2011-09-28T17:03:03Z 2011-09-28T17:03:03Z 2011-05 2010-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0731-5090 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66098 Le Ny, Jerome, and Hamsa Balakrishnan. “Feedback Control of the National Airspace System.” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 34 (2011): 832-846.Copyright © 2011 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/1.51203 Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Ny, Jerome Le Balakrishnan, Hamsa Feedback Control of the National Airspace System |
| title | Feedback Control of the National Airspace System |
| title_full | Feedback Control of the National Airspace System |
| title_fullStr | Feedback Control of the National Airspace System |
| title_full_unstemmed | Feedback Control of the National Airspace System |
| title_short | Feedback Control of the National Airspace System |
| title_sort | feedback control of the national airspace system |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66098 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 |
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