5 papers
String stable platoons of all-electric aircraft with operating costs and airspace complexity trade-off
Lucas Souza e Silva, Luis Rodrigues
This paper formulates an optimal control framework for computing cruise airspeeds in predecessor-follower platoons of all-electric aircraft that balance operational cost and airspa…
Minimum Energy Cruise of All-Electric Aircraft with Applications to Advanced Air Mobility
Steven Li, Luis Rodrigues
Electrified propulsion is expected to play an important role in the sustainable development of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). However, the limited energy density of batteries motivat…
On the airspace complexity metrics for predecessor-follower operations
Lucas Souza e Silva, Luis Rodrigues
This technical note proposes a novel airspace complexity metric that quantifies the air traffic controller workload and coordination effort for pairwise predecessor-follower aircra…
Optimal Constant Climb Airspeed with Variable Cost Index for All-electric Aircraft
Lucas Souza e Silva, Luis Rodrigues
This paper presents for the first time an approach to minimize direct operational costs (DOC) for all-electric aircraft during the climb phase, introducing a time-varying cost inde…
A Unified Approach for Optimal Cruise Airspeed with Variable Cost Index for Fuel-powered and All-electric Aircraft
Lucas Souza e Silva, Ali Akgunduz, Luis Rodrigues
This paper proposes for the first time a unified optimal approach to solve a direct operating cost (DOC) minimization problem where the cost index (CI) is time-varying. More specif…