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￿ HAL Id: tel-01372301 https://theses.hal.science/tel-01372301 Submitted on 27 Sep 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. TTHHÈÈSSEE 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. i ii To my loving husband Suffyan… To my supportive parents Ab Wahid, Norbiha… iii iv 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. v