Rapid advances in technologies that improve the management of aircraft have provided a
new opportunity for practitioners to address key social, environmental and economic impacts …

HE interest in obtaining optimal flight trajectories has significantly increased in the last years,
following both the increase in fuel costs and the desire to reduce the environmental impact …

This thesis presents several approaches, based on the characteristics of the problem
formulation and the involved dynamic systems, for solving large scale, complex, and real …

Trajectory optimization methods have been successfully used to minimize pollutant
emissions during departure and arrivals, and noise over communities near the airports. This …

This paper presents a study on the development of a real-time path planning algorithm for
the synthesis of noise abatement routings based on a so-called virtual force method. More …

The aviation today is an increasing global market with 2.2 billion passengers travelling
everyday due to the convenience that the air transportation has reached. Long term …

In a response to an emergency situation during flight, the initial focus of the pilots is to
stabilize and regain control of the aircraft. Then, their attention is switched to find the shortest …