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SUMMARY:Real-time Optimization-Based Planning and Scheduling of Aircraft T
 rajectories
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DESCRIPTION:Jan Maciejowski\nThis talk shows that significant reduction in
  fuel use could be achieved by the adoption of `free flight' type of traje
 ctories in the Terminal Manoeuvring Area (TMA) of an airport\, under the c
 ontrol of an algorithm which optimises the trajectories of all the aircraf
 t within the TMA simultaneously while maintaining safe separation. We prop
 ose the real-time use of Monte Carlo optimisation in the framework of Mode
 l Predictive Control (MPC) as the trajectory planning algorithm. Implement
 ation on a Graphical Processor Unit (GPU) allows the exploitation of the p
 arallelism inherent in Monte Carlo methods\, which results in solution spe
 eds high enough to allow real-time use. We demonstrate the solution of ver
 y complicated scenarios with both arrival and departure aircraft\, in thre
 e dimensions\, in the presence of a stochastic wind model and non-convex s
 afe-separation constraints. We evaluate our algorithm on flight data obtai
 ned in the London Gatwick Airport TMA\, and show that fuel saving of about
  30\\% can be obtained. We also demonstrate the flexibility of our approac
 h by adding noise-reduction objectives to the problem and observing the re
 sulting modifications to arrival and departure trajectories.\nBio: Jan Mac
 iejowski graduated from Sussex University in 1971 with a B.Sc degree in Au
 tomatic Control\, and from Cambridge University in 1978 with a Ph.D degree
  in Control Engineering. From 1971 to 1974 he was a Systems Engineer with 
 Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd\, working mostly on attitude control
  of spacecraft and high-altitude balloon platforms. He is a Professor of C
 ontrol Engineering at Cambridge University. He is also the President and a
  Fellow of Pembroke College\, Cambridge. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Head
  of the Information Engineering Division at Cambridge. He was the Presiden
 t of the European Union Control Association from 2003 to 2005\, and was Pr
 esident of the Institute of Measurement and Control for 2002. He is a Char
 tered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technolo
 gy (IET)\, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)\, t
 he Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC)\, and of the Internationa
 l Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He has published well-known text
 books on Multivariable Feedback Design (1989) and on Model Predictive Cont
 rol (2002).
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