Yutian Pang, PhD

Yutian Pang, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

Geometric Trajectory Optimization for TRACON Arrivals: An NLP Approach with ATC Vectoring Maneuver Modeling

Published in Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference 2026, 2026 · arXiv

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Optimized geometric path stretch maneuvers delivering arrivals to the final approach fix.

A nonlinear-programming formulation of TRACON arrival optimization that models controller vectoring maneuvers geometrically.

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@inproceedings{pang2026geometric,
  title = {Geometric Trajectory Optimization for TRACON Arrivals: An NLP Approach with ATC Vectoring Maneuver Modeling},
  author = {Pang, Y. and Delahaye, D. and Clarke, J.},
  booktitle = {Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference 2026},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.18454},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {math.OC},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18454}
}