Towards Greener Airport Surface Operations: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Autonomous Taxiing
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- TRAN Thanh-Nam
- Air Traffic Management Research Institute, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
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- PHAM Duc-Thinh
- Air Traffic Management Research Institute, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
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- ALAM Sameer
- Air Traffic Management Research Institute, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
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<p>This study proposes an autonomous aircraft taxi agent that can be used to recommend the pilot the optimal speed profile to achieve optimal fuel burn and to arrive on time at the target position on the taxiway while considering potential interactions with surrounding traffic. The problem is modeled as a control decision problem that is solved by training the agent under a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) mechanism using the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm. The reward function is designed to consider the fuel burn, taxi time, and delay time. Accordingly, the trained agent will learn to taxi the aircraft between any pair of locations on the airport surface in a timely manner while maintaining safety and efficiency. As a result, in more than 97.8% of the evaluated sessions, the controlled aircraft reached the target position with a time difference falling within the range of −20 to 5 s. Moreover, compared to actual fuel burn, the proposed autonomous taxi agent demonstrated a reduction of 29.5%, equivalent to reducing 13.9 kg of fuel consumption per aircraft. This benefit in fuel burn reduction can complement the emission reductions achieved by solving other sub-problems, such as pushback control and taxi-route assignments, to achieve much higher performance.</p>
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- TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES 67 (3), 101-108, 2024
一般社団法人 日本航空宇宙学会
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- 1390863008736710656
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- 21894205
- 05493811
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