26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-11.6.3 (AIAA 2008-8900)

MODIFIED BEZIER CURVE FOR 4D REFERENCE TRAJECTORY DEFINITION UNDER FLIGHT PROFILE CONSTRAINT

T. Miquel, F. Mora-Camino*
DSNA, France; *CNRS, France

Keywords: 4D REFERENCE TRAJECTORY DEFINITION

This paper deals with the definition of a reference path which may be useful when an aircraft is predicted to overfly too early a meter fix with respect to other traffics. The proposed approach to generate a path with length and endpoint constraints is based on modified Bezier curves.

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