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Modeling aircraft pushback trajectories for safe operations

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Franziska Dieke-Meier,

Hartmut Fricke,

Michael SchultzAuthors Info & Claims

ATACCS '13: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems

Pages 76 - 84

https://doi.org/10.1145/2494493.2494503

Published: 28 May 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Pushback operations are safety critical as historic incident and accident data show. The consequences are severe injuries of the ground personnel and expensive aircraft damages. As such, pushback process optimization by means of precise tug/aircraft trajectory prediction is considered as valuable risk mitigation strategy. We present a mathematical model to predict these pushback trajectories under various geometric constellations which is a complex solver activity. Our proposed model relies on a kinematic approach to generate the pushback trajectory as a function of aircraft wheelbase and geometric angles for curved segments. The conclusive concept validation is based on commonly provided ICAO standard planning data and shows promising results which will be subject of further field validation tests.

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https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4241

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Modeling aircraft pushback trajectories for safe operations
1. Applied computing
  1. Physical sciences and engineering
    1. Aerospace

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ATACCS '13: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems

May 2013

160 pages

ISBN:9781450322492

DOI:10.1145/2494493

General Chair:
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University of Naples 'Federico II', Italy
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Rajendran KKidd J(2019)Fixed Path Pull-In/Push Back Trajectories for Airliner Transport SystemAIAA Aviation 2019 Forum10.2514/6.2019-2935Online publication date: 14-Jun-2019
https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-2935
Tange NRoling PCurran R(2018)Effects of Pushback Accuracy On Static Apron Capacity2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference10.2514/6.2018-4241Online publication date: 24-Jun-2018
https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4241

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