Title:
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WEMSgen: a real-time weather modelling library for on-board trajectory optimisation and planning
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Author:
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Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Vilardaga García-Cascón, Santi; Isanta, Roger; Bas, Isidro; Birling, Florent
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ICARUS - Intelligent Communications and Avionics for Robust Unmanned Aerial Systems |
Abstract:
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Best paper of session award at 2015 IEEE/AIAA 34th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), September 2015, Prague, Czech Republic |
Abstract:
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WEMSgen is a stand-alone application devel-
oped within the Clean Sky FASTOP (Fast Opti-
miser for continuous descent approaches) project that
is capable to load weather data in standard GRIB
(General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary
form) files and generate piece-wise polynomial fitting
functions that can be used in a latter stage in trajectory
planning and/or optimisation algorithms. Assuming a
known lateral flight route, meteorological input data
(temperature, pressure and wind field) is fitted into
cubic B-splines as a function of the aircraft altitude
and its distance to the runway threshold. WEMSgen
can be queried in real-time by any process that needs
weather data. Thus, besides being used for trajec-
tory planning or optimisation algorithms, it also can
feed aircraft simulation or visualisation applications,
among other. WEMSgen has been successfully used
and validated in a flight simulation experiment using
the Generic Research Aircraft Cockpit Environment
(GRACE) at the National Aerospace Laboratory of
The Netherlands (NLR) |
Abstract:
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Award-winning |
Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Aeronàutica i espai -Mathematical optimisation -Mathematical optimisation -Optimització matemàtica |
Rights:
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Document type:
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Article - Published version Conference Object |
Published by:
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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