Dynamic Control of Airport Departures: Algorithm Development and Field Evaluation
Surface congestion leads to significant increases in taxi times and fuel burn at major airports. In this paper, we formulate the airport surface congestion management problem as a dynamic control problem. We address two main challenges: the random delay between actuation (at the gate) and the server...
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| author | Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa |
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| description | Surface congestion leads to significant increases in taxi times and fuel burn at major airports. In this paper, we formulate the airport surface congestion management problem as a dynamic control problem. We address two main challenges: the random delay between actuation (at the gate) and the server being controlled (the runway), and the need to develop control strategies that can be implemented in practice by human air traffic controllers. The second requirement necessitates a strategy that periodically updates the rate that departures pushback from their gates. We model the runway system as a semi-Markov process using surface surveillance data. We use this modeling framework to derive optimal pushback policies to control congestion. Finally, we present the results of the real-world implementation and field testing of this control protocol at Boston Logan International Airport. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/811872022-09-23T13:50:58Z Dynamic Control of Airport Departures: Algorithm Development and Field Evaluation Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa Surface congestion leads to significant increases in taxi times and fuel burn at major airports. In this paper, we formulate the airport surface congestion management problem as a dynamic control problem. We address two main challenges: the random delay between actuation (at the gate) and the server being controlled (the runway), and the need to develop control strategies that can be implemented in practice by human air traffic controllers. The second requirement necessitates a strategy that periodically updates the rate that departures pushback from their gates. We model the runway system as a semi-Markov process using surface surveillance data. We use this modeling framework to derive optimal pushback policies to control congestion. Finally, we present the results of the real-world implementation and field testing of this control protocol at Boston Logan International Airport. United States. Federal Aviation Administration (United States. Air Force Contract FA8721-05-C-0002) 2013-09-26T13:24:20Z 2013-09-26T13:24:20Z 2012-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781467321020 9781457710957 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81187 Simaiakis, Ioannis, and Balakrishnan, Hamsa. "Dynamic Control of Airport Departures: Algorithm Development and Field Evaluation." Proceedings of the American Control Conference (AAC 2012), Montreal, Canada. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 en_US http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6315592 Proceedings of the American Control Conference (AAC 2012) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa Dynamic Control of Airport Departures: Algorithm Development and Field Evaluation |
| title | Dynamic Control of Airport Departures: Algorithm Development and Field Evaluation |
| title_full | Dynamic Control of Airport Departures: Algorithm Development and Field Evaluation |
| title_fullStr | Dynamic Control of Airport Departures: Algorithm Development and Field Evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dynamic Control of Airport Departures: Algorithm Development and Field Evaluation |
| title_short | Dynamic Control of Airport Departures: Algorithm Development and Field Evaluation |
| title_sort | dynamic control of airport departures algorithm development and field evaluation |
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