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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2024
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abraham Puthuvana Vinod, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sachiyo Yamazaki, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ankush Chakrabarty, Bedford, MA (US);
Stefano Di Cairano, Newton, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling an aircraft within a terminal maneuvering area (TMA) of an airport in the presence of multiple other aircraft. The method includes solving an optimal control problem subject to constraints maintaining a pre-determined separation of the aircraft from the other aircraft in the TMA to determine a state trajectory of the aircraft indexed on a predetermined sequence of TMA stages of the aircraft approaching a merging point in the TMA. The state trajectory of the aircraft is a sequence of states having a one-to-one correspondence with the sequence of TMA stages. The state of the aircraft includes a time state variable indicative of a time remaining for reaching the merging point. The aircraft is then controlled on the basis of an optimal state trajectory that is determined using the state trajectory.
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