Flight guidance along 3D+T trajectories and space indexed traffic management

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by  Mastura Ab Wahid

Flight guidance along 3D+T trajectories and space
indexed traffic management
Mastura Ab Wahid
To cite this version:
Mastura Ab Wahid. Flight guidance along 3D+T trajectories and space indexed traffic manage-
ment. Computer Aided Engineering. Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, 2015. English. ￿NNT:
2015TOU30196￿. ￿tel-01372301￿
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En vue de l’obtention du

DOCTORAT DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE

Délivré par : l’Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier (UT3 Paul Sabatier)

Présentée et soutenue par :
MASTURA AB WAHID
le 8/12/2015
Titre:

FLIGHT GUIDANCE ALONG 3D+T TRAJECTORIES AND SPACE
INDEXED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

École doctorale er discipline ou spécialité
ED MITT : Domaine Mathématiques : Mathématiques appliquées

Unité de recherche :
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, Informatique et Automatique pour
l'Aérien (MAIAA), ENAC

Directeurs de Thèse :
FÉLIX MORA-CAMINO (Directeur)
ANTOINE DROUIN (Co-Directeur)

Jury :
FRANCISCO JAVIER SAEZ NIETO Rapporteur
DAVID ZAMMIT-MANGION Rapporteur
BENOÎT DACRE-WRIGHT Examinateur
CHRISTIAN BÈS Examinateur
DANIEL CHOUKROUN Examinateur

INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Firstly I would like to give my gratitude to the Ministry of Education Malaysia and
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) for giving me a scholarship to pursue my
studies in France for both Master and PhD degrees from 2010 to 2015. Secondly, I
am thankful to my Supervisor Prof. Dr. Felix Mora-Camino for accepting me in
MAIAA laboratory as his PhD student and for being attentive with me. I have
learned a lot under his guidance and his many ideas have helped me to complete this
thesis. Thank you. Thirdly, I want to thank my second supervisor, Dr. Antoine
Drouin who helped me with the numerical simulation part. Also, I want to thank my
colleague, now Dr. Hakim Bouadi, who has given me assistance during my first year
of internship. I found his thesis to be very useful as a basis for my own research.
Also, not forgetting the important people in my life, my husband, both my parents
and in-laws and my sisters who have given me moral support, for that I thank you.
Last but not least, I would like to give my sincerest gratitude to all my friends here in
this lab, in Toulouse and Malaysia. The discussion that we had either about the
research or other things have given me ideas, helped me find solutions and also
helped me unwind during my PhD years. Thank you All.

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To my loving husband Suffyan…
To my supportive parents Ab Wahid, Norbiha…

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ABSTRACT
With the increase in air traffic, surely a question of flight efficiency (delays),
environment impact and safety arise. This calls for improvements in accuracy of
spatial and temporal trajectory tracking. The first main objective of this thesis is to
contribute to the synthesis of a space-indexed nonlinear guidance control law for
transportation aircraft presenting enhanced tracking performances and to explore the
performances and feasibility of a flight guidance control law which is developed
based on a space-indexed reference to track a 3D+T reference trajectory using
nonlinear dynamic inversion control. The proposed guidance control law present
reduced tracking errors and able to meet more easily overfly time constraints. Before
presenting the main approaches for the design of the 3D+T guidance control laws;
the modern flight guidance and flight dynamics of transportation aircraft, including
explicitly wind components are first introduced. Then, a description of the current
and modern air traffic organization including the organization of air traffic in high
density flow will be shown and this will lead to a description of the Airstreams
concept. This proposed concept is to organize main traffic flows in congested
airspace along airstreams which are characterized by a three dimensional (3D)
common reference track (ASRT). Finally, a scenario to perform basic maneuvers
inside the airstream following a 3D+T trajectory using a common space-indexed will
be developed and will be used to illustrate the traffic management along an airstream.
Keywords: Airstreams, 3D+T trajectory tracking, flight guidance, space-indexed
nonlinear control.

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