A Study on Online Flight Trajectory Search and its Flight Simulator Testing

[Abstract] Real -time flight trajectory optimization algorithms are developed and evaluated through numerical simulation and flight simulator testing. The purpose of this study is to guide and control an aircraft in emergency landing. Though our final goal is to develop an automatic control system for tracking flight trajectories generated with the online optimization, this study verifies the validity of the generated optimal trajectories with manual flight control. This paper considers the real-time direct trajectory optimization method that can deal with constraints more strictly.