Description

Basically, flight maneuvers of aircrafts are optimized with respect to time or energy optimality, for example. The arising optimal control problems are solved by the software package MUSCOD-II to get the optimal flight trajectory for the current scenario. Within this software practical the computed optimal solutions should be visualized using the open source flight simulator 'FlightGear'.

Aim

The aim of this software practical is to design a nice and eye-catching visualization of the computed optimal solutions. This includes

• Software installation
• Finding out how to follow prescriped flight trajectories
• Understanding the relevant parts of the source code
• Convert the MUSCOD-II data into XML format
• Usage of the converted data to get the visualization

Size of the project

This project is suited for two students as a beginner practical or for one student as an advanced practical.

Requirements

• Good knowledge of C or C++ is required
• Some knowledge of numerical methods for optimal control of ODE/DAE systems (e.g., from a 'Numerik 1' or 'Numerik 2' lecture given by the SimOpt workgroup) might come in handy

Further reading

• The FlightGear homepage: http://www.flightgear.org

Contact

Dipl.-Math. Dörte Beigel
Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR)
Im Neuenheimer Feld 368
Universität Heidelberg

e-mail: doerte.beigel@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Room : INF 368 (IWR), R 413