Abstract
This paper studies the path planning problem for aircraft fleet taxiing on the flight deck of carriers, which is of great significance for improving the safety and efficiency level of launching. As there are various defects of manual command in the flight deck operation of carriers, the establishment of an automatic path planner for aircraft fleets is imperative. The requirements of launching, the particularities of the flight deck environment, the way of launch, and the work mode of catapult were analyzed. On this basis, a mathematical model was established which contains the constraints of maneuverability and the work mode of catapults; the ground motion and collision detection of aircraft are also taken into account. In the design of path planning algorithm, path tracking was combined with path planning, and the strategy of rolling optimization was applied to get the actual taxi path of each aircraft. Taking the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier as an example, the taxi paths of aircraft fleet launching was planned with the proposed method. This research can guarantee that the aircraft fleet complete launching missions safely with reasonable taxi paths.
Highlights
The aircraft carrier battle group is a symbol of maritime supremacy, and plays an irreplaceable role in both defending the security of territorial waters and safeguarding maritime interests [1,2].It is important to ensure the normal operation of aircraft carrier platforms in complicated conditions; this has a critical influence on enhancing the fighting capacity of the carrier-carrier aircraft system [3].As the area of flight deck is limited, aircraft must be well prepared before they can launch and enter combat in the air
The the launching launching mission mission of on the the flight flight deck deck is is taken taken as as an an example, example, and and the the taxi taxi path for each aircraft is planned with the proposed method under the simulation environment of path for each aircraft is planned with the proposed method under the simulation environment of Windows 7 and Matlab
The launching mission of 14 aircraft on the flight deck is taken as an example, and the taxi path for each aircraft is planned with the proposed method under the simulation environment of
Summary
The aircraft carrier battle group is a symbol of maritime supremacy, and plays an irreplaceable role in both defending the security of territorial waters and safeguarding maritime interests [1,2]. As the area of flight deck is limited, aircraft must be well prepared before they can launch and enter combat in the air. As the number of aircraft parking on the flight deck is increasing, an important and difficult problem is to make the flight operations in good order, i.e., launching and landing safely and efficiently [4,5]. It is of great significance to develop an automatic planner to organize aircraft launching with optimized taxi paths on the space-limited and resource-limited flight deck of the carrier. The taxi of aircraft mainly relies on the manual command on the flight deck:
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