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Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 16, 2019
Applicant:

Airbus Operations (S.a.s.), Toulouse, FR;

Inventors:

Jean-Claude Mere, Verfeil, FR;

Ramon Andreu Altava, Toulouse, FR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/08 (2006.01); B64D 43/00 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0808 (2013.01); B64D 43/00 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and device for generating an optimum aircraft vertical trajectory, including a unit performing iterative processing to determine, on each iteration, a next state from a computational state, by using an estimated overall cost for next states, each estimated overall cost, which is computed by a cost computation unit, being equal to the sum of a real cost computed up to the next state under consideration by using predetermined constraints and a cost estimated up to the current state of the aircraft. The estimated cost is computed using a deterministic neural network based on performance calculations for the aircraft without using energy constraints, allowing computation of this estimated cost and the estimated overall cost to be performed rapidly. The iterative processing is repeated until the determined state is situated in proximity to the current state of the aircraft, the corresponding trajectory part forming the optimum vertical trajectory.


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