Autonomous Coordinated Airspace Services for Terminal and Enroute Operations with Wind Errors [STUB]

As current operations expand and novel uses of the airspace continue to multiply, increasingly autonomous systems will be required to ensure safety and efficiency. This paper presents the current status of an autonomous airspace service designed to ensure safe and efficient trajectories for aircraft in both enroute and terminal airspaces, the Advanced Airspace Concept. Previous papers have demonstrated the efficacy of this algorithm for enroute operations and for handling commercial operations in a complex metroplex when there is no uncertainty present. This study extends that work to demonstrate coordinated enroute and terminal operations and to demonstrate the performance of the algorithm under high levels of wind-magnitude uncertainty. Important algorithm improvements to enable coordinated enroute and terminal operations are discussed along with methods for handling uncertainty for constrained arrival operations. Results of simulations of operations into and out of the Dallas-Fort Worth area are presented that show the performance of the coordinated system both with and without uncertainty. The level of uncertainty included in these simulations resulted in a more than 100% increase in delay over baseline operations. Arrival schedule deviations were also significantly increased, but a new arrival conformance monitoring system mitigated these deviations to some extent.