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Zoutendijk, M. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Taxiing aircraft using electric vehicles is seen as an effective solution to meet aviation targets of climate neutrality. However, making the transition to electric taxiing operations is expected to significantly increase the electricity demand at airports. In this paper we propose a mixed-integer linear program to schedule electric vehicles...journal article 2024
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de Pater, I.I. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Most Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prognostics are obtained using supervised learning models trained with many labelled data samples (i.e., the true RUL is known). In aviation, however, aircraft systems are often preventively replaced before failure. There are thus very few labelled data samples available. We therefore propose a Long Short-Term...journal article 2023
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Zoutendijk, M. (author), van Oosterom, S.J.M. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Reducing aircraft taxiing emissions will deliver a significant contribution to the worldwide goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the aviation industry. Replacing jet-engine taxiing by towing aircraft with electric towing vehicles is expected to reduce taxiing emissions by roughly 80%. Introducing a fleet of towing vehicles introduces...conference paper 2023
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An investigation of operational management solutions and challenges for electric taxiing of aircraftZoutendijk, M. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Taxiing aircraft using electric towing vehicles (ETVs) is expected to significantly contribute to the objective of climate-neutral aviation by 2050. This study reviews existing work on operational aspects of electric towing of aircraft, and discusses management solutions. We first discuss the varying electric taxi systems currently under...journal article 2023
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van Oosterom, S.J.M. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Following the Paris Accords, the aviation industry aims to become climate neutral by 2050. In this line, electric vehicles that tow aircraft during taxiing are a promising emerging technology to reduce emissions at airports. This paper proposes an end-to-end optimization framework for electric towing vehicles (ETVs) dispatchment at large...journal article 2023
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Mitici, M.A. (author), de Pater, I.I. (author), Zeng, Zhiguo (author), Barros, Anne (author)We pose the maintenance planning for systems using probabilistic Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prognostics as a renewal reward process. Data-driven probabilistic RUL prognostics are obtained using a Convolutional Neural Network with Monte Carlo dropout. The maintenance planning model is illustrated for aircraft turbofan engines. The results show...conference paper 2023
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van Oosterom, S.J.M. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Recent advances in battery technology have opened the possibility for short-haul electric flight. This is particularly attractive for commuter airlines that operate in remote regions such as archipelagos or Nordic fjords where the geography impedes other means of transportation. In this paper we address the question of how to optimize the...journal article 2023
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de Pater, I.I. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)A good weight initialization is crucial to accelerate the convergence of the weights in a neural network. However, training a neural network is still time-consuming, despite recent advances in weight initialization approaches. In this paper, we propose a mathematical framework for the weight initialization in the last layer of a neural...journal article 2023
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Mitici, M.A. (author), Hennink, Birgitte (author), Pavel, M.D. (author), Dong, J. (author)The health management of batteries is a key enabler for the adoption of Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing vehicles (eVTOLs). Currently, few studies consider the health management of eVTOL batteries. One distinct characteristic of batteries for eVTOLs is that the discharge rates are significantly larger during take-off and landing, compared...journal article 2023
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Lee, J. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author), Blom, H.A.P. (author), Bieber, Pierre (author), Freeman, Floris (author)The increasing use of on-board sensor monitoring and data-driven algorithms has stimulated the recent shift to data-driven predictive maintenance for aircraft. This paper discusses emerging challenges for data-driven predictive aircraft maintenance. We identify new hazards associated with the introduction of data-driven technologies into...journal article 2023
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Mitici, M.A. (author), de Pater, I.I. (author), Barros, Anne (author), Zeng, Zhiguo (author)The increasing availability of condition-monitoring data for components/systems has incentivized the development of data-driven Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prognostics in the past years. However, most studies focus on point RUL prognostics, with limited insights into the uncertainty associated with these estimates. This limits the...journal article 2023
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de Pater, I.I. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Health indicators are crucial to assess the health of complex systems. In recent years, several studies have developed data-driven health indicators using supervised learning methods. However, due to preventive maintenance, there are often not enough failure instances to train a supervised learning model, i.e., the data is unlabelled with an...conference paper 2023
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de Pater, I.I. (author), Reijns, Arthur (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)The increasing availability of condition monitoring data for aircraft components has incentivized the development of Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prognostics in the past years. However, only few studies consider the integration of such prognostics into maintenance planning. In this paper we propose a dynamic, predictive maintenance scheduling...journal article 2022
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Mitici, M.A. (author), Ramos Pereira, M. (author), Oliviero, F. (author)With the current advances in aircraft design and Lithium-Ion batteries, electric aircraft are expected to serve as a replacement for conventional, short-range aircraft. This paper addresses the main operational challenges for short-range flights operated with electric aircraft: determining the investment needs for a fleet of electric aircraft,...journal article 2022
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Lee, J. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author), Geng, S. (author), Yang, M. (author)When designing the maintenance of multi-component aircraft systems, we consider parameters such as safety margins (used when component replacements are scheduled), and reliability thresholds (used to define data-driven Remaining-Useful-Life prognostics of components). We propose Gaussian process learning and novel adaptive sampling techniques to...conference paper 2022
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Lee, J. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)The increasing availability of sensor monitoring data has stimulated the development of Remaining-Useful-Life (RUL) prognostics and maintenance planning models. However, existing studies focus either on RUL prognostics only, or propose maintenance planning based on simple assumptions about degradation trends. We propose a framework to integrate...journal article 2022
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Lee, J. (author), de Pater, I.I. (author), Boekweit, S.A. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Several studies have proposed Remaining-Useful-Life (RUL) prognostics for aircraft components in the last years. However, few studies focus on integrating these RUL prognostics into maintenance planning frameworks. This paper proposes an optimization model for opportunistic maintenance scheduling of aircraft components that integrates RUL...conference paper 2022
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de Pater, I.I. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Well-established metrics such as the Root Mean Square Error or the Mean Absolute Error are not suitable to evaluate estimated distributions of the Remaining Useful Life (i.e., probabilistic prognostics). We therefore propose novel metrics to evaluate the quality of probabilistic Remaining Useful Life prognostics. We estimate the distribution of...conference paper 2022
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Itoh, Eri (author), Mitici, M.A. (author), Schultz, Michael (author)Reducing the length of departure queues at runway entry points is one of the most important requirements for reducing aircraft traffic congestion and fuel consumption at airports. This study designs an aircraft departure model at a runway using a time-varying fluid queue. The proposed model enables us to determine the aircraft waiting time in...journal article 2022
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Multi-objective design of aircraft maintenance using Gaussian process learning and adaptive samplingLee, J. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Aircraft maintenance design aims to identify strategies that render the aircraft reliable for flight in a cost-efficient manner. These are often conflicting objectives. Moreover, existing studies on maintenance design often limit themselves to only one type of maintenance strategy, overlooking other potentially dominating designs. We propose...journal article 2022