INERTIAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING PROBLEM OF AIRCRAFT MANEUVERING TO REACH ALTITUDE AND ATTACK TARGET

Abstract

In this paper, we study a model of an aircraft maneuvering to reach altitude and attack a suggested target, where the object is the minimum altitude along the trajectory. We establish the model as an optimal control problem, and then propose the global collocation method to transform continuous problem model to large-scale nonlinear programming (NLP). We introduce an inertial optimization algorithm for solving the obtained NLP. Some numerical experiments are implemented for the multi-role fighter aircraft Su-30MK2. The experimental results have shaped the form of optimal trajectory: level flight, climb, dive. This suggests the solution when we construct flight plans and perform practical tasks.