Evaluation of Time-window Trajectories with respect to Fuel Consumption and Arrival Time

The flight planning process is an extensive and long process to direct and maintain a high level of operations within the airspace. As air traffic demand grows year after year, it's worthwhile to optimise the European air traffic system further. One way of optimising the system, is by creating optimal flight schedules that solve for demand...

Multi-Flyby Mission to a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid: Improving the Earth Impact Probability Knowledge

The feasibility of improving the Earth collision uncertainty knowledge of a potentially Earth impacting asteroid by means of a multi-flyby mission has been researched in this thesis. The feasibility is assessed both from an astrodynamics point of view and from a systems engineering point of view. The astrodynamics part provides knowledge...

Jump Markov Nonlinear System Identification in Multi-Sensor Target Tracking: A Novel Approach for Multiple Model Joint Tracking and Behavior Classification

The detection of unusual behavior plays a crucial role in the prevention of illegal and harmful activities such as smuggling, piracy, arms trading, human trafficking and illegal immigration. Also for military applications, it is useful to detect anomalous behavior to provide an alert for potential threats, especially with the more recent...