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Time and Energy Managed Operations (TEMO): Cessna Citation II Flight Trials
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Author:
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Verhoeven, Ronald; Bussink, Frank; Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Dalmau Codina, Ramon
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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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From 9-26 October 2015 the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) in
cooperation with Delft University of Technology (DUT) has executed Clean Sky flight
trials with the Cessna Citation II research aircraft. The trials consisted of several
descents and approaches at the Eelde airport near Groningen, demonstrating the
TEMO (Time and Energy Managed Operations) concept developed in the Clean Sky
Joint Technology Initiative research programme as part of the Systems for Green
Operations (SGO) Integrated Technology Demonstrator.
A TEMO descent aims to achieve an energy-managed idle-thrust
continuous descent operation (CDO) while satisfying ATC time constraints, to
maintain runway throughput. An optimal descent plan is calculated with an advanced
on-board real-time aircraft trajectory optimisation algorithm considering forecasted
weather and aircraft performance. The optimised descent plan was executed using
the speed-on-elevator mode of an experimental Fly-By-Wire (FBW) system connected
to the pitch servo motor of the Cessna Citation II aircraft. Several TEMO conceptual
variants have been flown. It has been demonstrated that the TEMO concept enables
arrival with timing errors below 10 seconds. The project was realised with the
support of CONCORDE partners Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and
PildoLabs from Barcelona, and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
(KNMI). |
Abstract:
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Peer Reviewed |
Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Aeronàutica i espai -Airplanes--Control systems -Fly-by-wire control -Aeronaus -- Equip electrònic |
Rights:
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Document type:
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Article - Published version Conference Object |
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