Glide Control for Engine-Out Aircraft

摘要

The purpose of this communication is to contribute to the development of an emergency trajectory management capability for an engine-out transportation aircraft. First a representation of the flight dynamics of an engine-out aircraft is proposed where the space variable is chosen as independent parameter instead of the time variable. This allows to propose a spatial formulation of the corresponding trajectory optimization problem and to develop a reverse dynamic programming solution technique which generates data for the training of a neural network whose function is to generate feasible and safe reference values for the vertical guidance of the gliding aircraft. Simulation results are displayed and new development perspectives are discussed.