27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-5.11.1

OPTIMIZATION OF AIR RACE TRAJECTORIES

F. Fisch, J. Lenz, F. Holzapfel, G. Sachs
TU Munich, Germany

Keywords: trajectory optimization, initial guess, 6-dof, air races

A novel procedure for the optimization of air race trajectories is presented that is based on a scalable, multi-fidelity simulation model. By means of this procedure, convergence properties are improved and good initial guesses for the optimization with full 6-Degree of Freedom simulation models are generated.

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