ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO SOLVE A VARIATIONAL INEQUALITY APPLIED TO AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL EXAMPLE

Some important problems of air traffic control, such as collision avoidance, can mathematically be formulated as problems of optimal stopping a diffusion. As shown, an optimal stopping policy can be characterized by a variational inequality (VI). To compute the solution of such a VI, a new iteration scheme is developed. The simplicity of this scheme is explicitly due to the assumption that the cost of stopping is a sufficiently smooth function of the state, which often holds for stopping problems. The scheme is applied to a simple example of air traffic control.

  • Corporate Authors:

    National Aerospace Laboratory, Netherlands

    Amsterdam,   Netherlands 
  • Authors:
    • HEUVELINK, GBM
    • Blom, HAP
  • Publication Date: 1988

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  • Pagination: 18 p.

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  • Accession Number: 00487896
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
  • Report/Paper Numbers: NLR-MP-87080-U
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Sep 30 1989 12:00AM