Creation of Conflict-free Taxi Routes for Aircraft with Evolutionary Algorithms
Ingrid Gerdes, Meilin Schaper · elib (German Aerospace Center) · 2013
Flight operations for aircraft are influenced by tools like arrival and departure managers, which create time constrained flight trajectories, but there is a lack of surveillance for ground operations. Therefore, DLR develops TRACC, a surface management system supporting trajectory based ground operations. It is able to create conflict-free “4D”-taxi routes using evolutionary algorithms, where especially the arrival time at the departure runway is optimized. TRACC creates the controller commands, controls deviations from the planned routes and analyses the impact on the ground taxi system.