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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 2183-2191.

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Aircraft Behavior Simulation Investigation During Pushback and U-turn Maneuvers

DONG Jiankang1, WANG Jiening1, WANG Anguo1, JIANG Gaoyang2   

  1. 1. College of Air Traffic Management, China Civil Aviation University, Tianjin, 300300, China;
    2. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Operation Programming and Safety Technology of Air Traffic Management, Tianjin 300300, China
  • Received:2012-08-14 Revised:2012-09-24 Online:2012-12-25 Published:2012-12-24
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (60832011); Tianjin Natural Science Foundation (10JCYBJC00800)

Abstract:

Aircraft pushback and U-turn maneuvers belong to the special ground taxiing behaviors, and these behaviors are not accurately demonstrated in the current visual simulation system. In this paper, we study the position and attitude computational problems during aircraft pushback and U-turn maneuvers. From the perspective of airport tower control simulation, aircraft movement calculation methods constrained by nonholonomic kinematics are proposed to accurately describe aircraft pushback and U-turn maneuvers. The aircraft pushback motion algorithm suitable for simulation-driven calculation is designed according to aircraft actual movement and nonholonomic path following model. In addition, under the open-loop control, aircraft U-turn maneuver algorithm constrained by runway geometry and steering angle variation is designed to completely describe aircraft behaviors during runway U-turn. Compared with dynamics model, the methods we have proposed have the advantages of being easier to calculate and more suitable for visual simulation. The validity of these methods is verified by numerical simulation using aircraft geometry data.

Key words: pushback, U-turn, taxiing, nonholonomic constraints, visual simulation

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