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Olive, Xavier (author), Sun, Junzi (author)Instability in the movement of air masses in the atmosphere can result in turbulence. Most often, turbulence causes discomfort to passengers but it can occasionally affect their safety as well. Turbulence experienced by aircraft can be difficult to predict, especially for clear air turbulence (CAT) which occurs in the absence of any visual clues...conference paper 2020
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Sun, Z. (author), Kasbergen, C. (author), van Dalen, K.N. (author), Anupam, K. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Maintenance and rehabilitation strategies of pavements are usually made based on the results of performance evaluation. An efficient tool for pavement structural evaluation at network level is the traffic speed deflectometer (TSD) test. In order to deal with TSD measurements, this paper proposes a parameter back-calculation technique. Firstly,...conference paper 2020
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Sun, Z. (author), Kasbergen, C. (author), van Dalen, K.N. (author), Anupam, K. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Erkens, S. (author)Pavements generally demand necessary maintenance and rehabilitation to maintain their service performance in the whole lifespan. The maintenance and rehabilitation strategies are usually formulated based on the results of non-destructive testing, in which the traffic speed deflectometer (TSD) test is an efficient tool for pavement structural...conference paper 2020
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Sun, B. (author), van Kampen, E. (author)Sufficient information about system dynamics and inner states is often unavailable to aerospace system controllers, which requires model-free and output feedback control techniques, respectively. This paper presents a novel self-learning control algorithm to deal with these two problems by combining the advantages of heuristic dynamic...conference paper 2020
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Sun, B. (author), van Kampen, E. (author)Optimal tracking is a widely researched control problem, but the unavailability of sufficient information referring to system dynamics brings challenges. In this paper, an optimal tracking control method is proposed for an unknown launch vehicle based on the global dual heuristic programming technique. The nonlinear system dynamics is...conference paper 2020
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Sun, Junzi (author), Olive, Xavier (author), Strohmeier, Martin (author), Schafer, Matthias (author), Martinovic, Ivan (author), Lenders, Vincent (author)The year 2020 had been selected by EU and US regulators as the deadline for ADS-B compliant Mode S transponders, following various iterations of ADS-B and Mode S services. It will also be remembered as marking a profound change in civil aviation, when the global virus outbreak triggered an unprecedented slowdown in traffic and brought immense...conference paper 2021
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Dalmau, Ramon (author), Sun, Junzi (author), Prats, Xavier (author)The vertical trajectory plan (altitude and speed) corresponding to the descent phase of a modern airliner is computed by the on-board flight management system while the aircraft is still in cruise. As long as the constraints on the arrival procedure allow, this system plans for an idle descent and the exact location of the (optimal) top of...conference paper 2021
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Olive, Xavier (author), Sun, Junzi (author), Murça, Mayara Condé Rocha (author), Krauth, Timothe (author)Aircraft trajectory generation is a widely addressed problem with applications including emergency trajectory generation, collision risk models, air traffic flow and capacity management or airspace design. State of the art methods to generate individual trajectories and optimise some performance or emergency criterion may lack of realism with...conference paper 2021
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Sun, Junzi (author), Marinescu, M. (author), Olivares, Alberto (author), Staffetti, Ernesto (author)Accurate wind information is crucial in air traffic management, for instance, to improve trajectory predictability and precision in controlled time of arrival. Nowadays, air traffic management relies on Numerical Weather Prediction, which usually has a low resolution and low update rate. A potential approach for improving the resolution and...conference paper 2021
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Bonifazi, A. (author), Sun, Junzi (author), van Baren, Gerben (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Not all flight data anomalies correspond to operational safety concerns. But anomalous safety events can be linked to anomalies in flight data. During the final phases of a flight, two significant safety events are unstable approach and goaround. In this paper, using Automatic Dependent Surveillance- Broadcast (ADS-B) data, we develop several...conference paper 2021
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Sun, Junzi (author), Sunil, Emmanuel (author), Koerse, Ralph (author), van Selling, Stijn (author), van Doorn, Jan-Willem (author), Brinkman, Thomas (author)The METeo Sensors in the Sky (METSIS) project, funded by SESAR’s Engage knowledge transfer network, investigated the use of drones as an aerial wind sensor network for U-space applications. The concept aims to provide accurate, lowcost and hyperlocal wind nowcasts for drones using data collected by drones themselves and the Meteo-Particle Model ...conference paper 2021
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Graas, R. (author), Sun, Junzi (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Several initiatives are developed to shift the current paradigm in Air Traffic Management from the tactical-based approach to more strategic-based coordination of flights. This transformation of the ATM system relies on the improvement of predictive models for the 4D flight trajectories. A variety of performance-based and data-driven approaches...conference paper 2021
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Sun, Yubo (author), Chen, B. (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Blom, Kees (author), Lukovic, M. (author), Ye, G. (author)In recent years, the rapid industrialization and urbanization led to the explosive growth of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ashes (BA) production. However, most of them are directly landfilled, which not only brings environmental burden but also results in loss of potential resources. Present researches have proved that MSWI BA...conference paper 2021
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de Alvear Cardenas, J.I. (author), Sun, B. (author), van Kampen, E. (author)Linear Approximate Dynamic Programming (LADP) and Incremental Approximate Dynamic Programming (IADP) are Reinforcement Learning methods that seek to contribute to the field of Adaptive Flight Control. This paper assesses their performance and convergence, as well as the impact of sensor noise on policy convergence, online system...conference paper 2021
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Dhiman, Ashish (author), Sun, P. (author), Kooij, Robert (author)This paper presents machine learning based approximations for the minimum number of driver nodes needed for structural controllability of networks under link-based random and targeted attacks. We compare our approximations with existing analytical approximations and show that our machine learning based approximations significantly outperform...conference paper 2021
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Chen, Anqi (author), Sun, P. (author), Kooij, Robert (author)Network recoverability refers to the ability of a network to recover to a desired performance level after suffering topological perturbations such as link failures. The minimum number of driver nodes is a typical metric to denote the network controllability. In this paper, we propose closed-form analytic approximations for the minimum number of...conference paper 2021
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Sun, Yubo (author), Chen, Boyu (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Blom, Kees (author), Luković, Mladena (author), Ye, Guang (author)In recent years, the rapid industrialization and urbanization led to the explosive growth of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ashes (BA) production. However, most of them are directly landfilled, which not only brings environmental burden but also results in loss of potential resources. Present researches have proved that MSWI BA...conference paper 2021
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Pel, L. (author), Ji, Yanliang (author), Sun, Zhenping (author)With freshwater getting scares seawater, i.e., water containing NaCl, can become the only viable option for making concrete. Although a lot of research had been directed to understanding the role of water in cement hydration, not much is known about the interaction of the Na+ and Cl- with cement paste during drying. A problem is that available...conference paper 2021
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Ji, Yanliang (author), Sun, Zhenping (author), Pel, Leo (author), Pang, Min (author)Bleeding can be described as water coming out from fresh cement paste, which not only affects the homogeneity at fresh stage but also decides the hardened state structure. Previous studies have focused on the determination or simulation of the bleeding extent of fresh cement paste and give objective conclusions. However, there are rare...conference paper 2021
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Sun, Beibei (author), Ye, Guang (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)Alkali-activated materials(AAM) are known to be environmentally friendly alternatives to cement-based materials because they can potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reutilize industrial by-products. However, the application of AAM is still limited by the lack of mixture design regulation. Unlike cement, the very different chemical...conference paper 2021