Inference Of Flight Mode Of Aircraft Including Conflict Resolution

The present paper considers an inference method for the flight mode of aircraft. Using the observed or estimated trajectory, the proposed method estimates the Lagrange multiplier of each constraint and the weight of each term of the objective function corresponding to the priority of the flight mode. The flight modes include direct travel to a waypoint, circling a waypoint, and resolution of conflicts with other aircraft. The proposed method is well suited to real-time applications because it is reduced to the solution of a sparse quadratic program, which can be solved efficiently. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through a numerical example.