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Heinen, Jan T. (author), Brockie, S.G. (author), ten Broek, Raymund (author), van der Kruk, E. (author), Moore, J.K. (author)The ollie is the base aerial human–board maneuver, foundational to most modern skateboarding tricks. We formulate and solve an optimal control problem of a two-dimensional simplified human model and a rigid body skateboard with the objective of maximizing the height of the ollie. Our solution simultaneously discovers realistic human-applied...journal article 2024
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Simorgh, A. (author), Soler, Manuel (author), Dietmüller, Simone (author), Matthes, Sigrun (author), Yamashita, Hiroshi (author), Castino, F. (author), Yin, F. (author)The non-CO<sub>2</sub> climate impact of aviation strongly relies on the atmospheric conditions at the time and location of emissions. Therefore, it is possible to mitigate their associated climate impact by planning trajectories to re-route airspace areas with significant climate effects. Identifying such climate-sensitive regions requires...journal article 2024
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Simorgh, A. (author), Soler, Manuel (author), Castino, F. (author), Yin, F. (author), Cerezo Magana, M. (author)The spatiotemporal dependency of aviation-induced non-CO<sub>2</sub> climate effects can be incorporated into flight planning tools to generate climate-friendly flight plans. However, estimating climate impact is challenging and associated with high uncertainty. To ensure the effectiveness of such an operational measure, sources that induce...journal article 2024
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Ferranti, L. (author), Lyons, L. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Keviczky, T. (author), Alonso-Mora, J. (author)This work presents a method for multi-robot coordination based on a novel distributed nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) formulation for trajectory optimization and its modified version to mitigate the effects of packet losses and delays in the communication among the robots. Our algorithms consider that each robot is equipped with an...journal article 2023
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Robust Jumping with an Articulated Soft Quadruped via Trajectory Optimization and Iterative LearningDing, J. (author), Sels, Mees A.van Loben (author), Angelini, Franco (author), Kober, J. (author), Della Santina, C. (author)Quadrupeds deployed in real-world scenarios need to be robust to unmodelled dynamic effects. In this work, we aim to increase the robustness of quadrupedal periodic forward jumping (i.e., pronking) by unifying cutting-edge model-based trajectory optimization and iterative learning control. Using a reduced-order soft anchor model, the...journal article 2023
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Scheepmaker, G.M. (author)Railways in Europe need to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and energy usage to contribute to sustainability. One of the measures that railway undertakings can apply with low investment cost and both high reductions in CO<sub>2</sub> emission and energy consumption, is energy-efficient train trajectory optimization. Another efficient measure is...doctoral thesis 2022
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Sun, Junzi (author)Trajectory optimization has been an active area of research for air transport studies for several decades. But almost all flight optimizers proposed in the literature remain close-sourced, which presents a major disadvantage for the advancement of scientific research. This optimization depends on aircraft performance models, emission models, and...journal article 2022
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Sun, Junzi (author), Olive, Xavier (author), Delahaye, Daniel (author)Inefficiencies in flight operations, like deviations and non-optimal flight speed or altitude, are directly linked to flight emission inefficiencies. Quantifying these emission inefficiencies and studying potential mitigation strategies is certainly beneficial for the sustainability of the aviation industry. In this paper, we analyze emission...conference paper 2022
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Ning, Lingbin (author), Zhou, Min (author), Hou, Zhuopu (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author), Wang, Fei Yue (author), Dong, Hairong (author)This paper proposes a novel train trajectory optimization approach for high-speed railways. We restrict our attention to single train operation scenarios with different scheduled/rescheduled running times aiming at generating optimal train recommended trajectories in real time, which can ensure punctuality and energy efficiency of train...journal article 2022
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Simorgh, Abolfazl (author), Soler, Manuel (author), González-Arribas, Daniel (author), Matthes, Sigrun (author), Grewe, V. (author), Dietmüller, Simone (author), Baumann, Sabine (author), Yin, F. (author), Castino, F. (author)The strong growth rate of the aviation industry in recent years has created significant challenges in terms of environmental impact. Air traffic contributes to climate change through the emission of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) and other non-CO<sub>2</sub> effects, and the associated climate impact is expected to soar further. The...review 2022
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Shao, X. (author), Yao, Weiran (author), Li, Xiaolei (author), Sun, Guanghui (author), Wu, Ligang (author)This letter investigates the direct trajectory optimization of the free-floating space manipulator (FFSM). The main purpose is to plan the joint space trajectories to reduce the spacecraft motion due to the joint rotation during the FFSM performing tasks. To improve the calculation efficiency, the adaptive Radau pseudospectral method (A-RPM)...journal article 2022
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Ferreira de Brito, B.F. (author), Agarwal, Achin (author), Alonso-Mora, J. (author)Autonomous navigation in dense traffic scenarios remains challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs) because the intentions of other drivers are not directly observable and AVs have to deal with a wide range of driving behaviors. To maneuver through dense traffic, AVs must be able to reason how their actions affect others (interaction model)...journal article 2022
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Carzana, L. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Heiligers, M.J. (author)Solar sailing is a spacecraft propulsion method relying solely on solar radiation pressure to provide thrust and is therefore propellantless by nature. Although it represents a practical and promising propulsion system particularly suited for heliocentric flight regimes, near-term sailcraft missions will remain Earth-bound due to the current...conference paper 2021
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Goverde, R.M.P. (author), Scheepmaker, G.M. (author), Wang, P. (author)In the last decade, pseudospectral methods have become popular for solving optimal control problems. Pseudospectral methods do not need prior knowledge about the optimal control structure and are thus very flexible for problems with complex path constraints, which are common in optimal train control, or train trajectory optimization....journal article 2021
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Niklaβ, Malte (author), Grewe, V. (author), Gollnick, Volker (author), Dahlmann, Katrin (author)Approximately 50–75% of aviation's climate impact is caused by non-CO<sub>2</sub> effects, like the production of ozone and the formation of contrail cirrus clouds, which can be effectively prevented by re-routing flights around highly climate-sensitive areas. Here, we discuss options how to incentivize re-routing approaches and apply...journal article 2021
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Yamashita, Hiroshi (author), Yin, F. (author), Grewe, V. (author), Jöckel, Patrick (author), Matthes, Sigrun (author), Kern, Bastian (author), Dahlmann, Katrin (author), Frömming, Christine (author)Climate-optimized routing is an operational measure to effectively reduce the climate impact of aviation with a slight increase in aircraft operating costs. This study examined variations in the flight characteristics among five aircraft routing strategies and discusses several characteristics of those routing strategies concerning typical...journal article 2021
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Ho-Huu, V. (author), Hartjes, S. (author), Perez Castan, J.A. (author), Visser, H.G. (author), Curran, R. (author)This paper presents the development of a multilevel optimization framework for the design and selection of departure routes, and the distribution of aircraft movements among these routes, while taking the sequence and separation requirements for aircraft on runways and along selected routes into account. The main aim of the framework is to...journal article 2020
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Acciarini, Giacomo (author), Izzo, Dario (author), Mooij, E. (author)In this paper, we combine the concepts of hyper-volume, ant colony optimization and nondominated sorting to develop a novel multi-objective ant colony optimizer for global space trajectory optimization. In particular, this algorithm is first tested on three space trajectory bi-objective test problems: an Earth-Mars transfer, an Earth-Venus...conference paper 2020
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Ho-Huu, V. (author)With a significant impact on the development of the global economy and society, air transport is predicted to rapidly grow in the coming years. Unfortunately, while delivering positive global economic and social benefits, air transport has also generated an adverse influence on the environment, especially on the quality of life of communities...doctoral thesis 2020
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Potdar, N.D. (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author), Alonso-Mora, J. (author)Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) can be used for aerial transportation in remote and urban spaces where portability can be exploited to reach previously inaccessible and inhospitable spaces. Current approaches for path planning of MAV swung payload system either compute conservative minimal-swing trajectories or pre-generate agile collision-free...journal article 2020
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