Minimum Climb Time (English Units)

Contents

Problem description

Example about climbing (increase altitude)

% Copyright (c) 2007-2008 by Tomlab Optimization Inc.

Problem setup

alt0     = 0;
altf     = 65600;
speed0   = 424.26;
speedf   = 968.148;
fpa0     = 0;
fpaf     = 0;
mass0    = 42000/32.208;

altmin   = 0;
altmax   = 69000;
speedmin = 10;
speedmax = 3000;
fpamin   = -40*pi/180;
fpamax   = -fpamin;
massmin  = 50/32.208;

toms t t_f
p = tomPhase('p',t,0,t_f,50);
setPhase(p);

% Altitude, speed, flight path angle, mass
tomStates h v fpa m

% Angle of Attack
tomControls aalpha

guess = {
    t_f == 300;
    icollocate({
    h == alt0 + t/t_f*(altf-alt0);
    v == speed0 + t/t_f*(speedf-speed0);
    fpa == 10*pi/180;
    m == mass0;
    })};

cbox = {
    100 <= t_f <= 800;
    collocate(-pi*20/180 <= aalpha <= pi/20*180)
    icollocate(altmin <= h <= altmax)
    icollocate(speedmin <= v <= speedmax)
    icollocate(fpamin <= fpa <= fpamax)
    icollocate(massmin <= m <= mass0)
    };

bnd = {
    initial(h) == alt0;
    initial(v) == speed0;
    initial(fpa) == fpa0;
    initial(m) == mass0;
    final(h) == altf;
    final(v) == speedf;
    final(fpa) == fpaf;
    };

% US1976 data
hTab = (-2000:2000:86000);
rhoTab = [1.478 1.225 1.007 0.8193 0.6601 0.5258 0.4135 0.3119 ...
    0.2279 0.1665 0.1216 0.08891 0.06451 0.04694 0.03426 0.02508 ...
    0.01841 0.01355 0.009887 0.007257 0.005366 0.003995 0.002995 ...
    0.002259 0.001714 0.001317 0.001027 0.0008055 0.0006389 0.0005044 ...
    0.0003962 0.0003096 0.0002407 0.000186 0.0001429 0.0001091 ...
    8.281e-005 6.236e-005 4.637e-005 3.43e-005 2.523e-005 1.845e-005 ...
    1.341e-005 9.69e-006 6.955e-006];
sosTab = [347.9 340.3 332.5 324.6 316.5 308.1 299.5 295.1 295.1 ...
    295.1 295.1 295.1 296.4 297.7 299.1 300.4 301.7 303 306.5 310.1 ...
    313.7 317.2 320.7 324.1 327.5 329.8 329.8 328.8 325.4 322 318.6 ...
    315.1 311.5 308 304.4 300.7 297.1 293.4 290.7 288 285.3 282.5 ...
    279.7 276.9 274.1];

Mtab   = [0; 0.2; 0.4; 0.6; 0.8; 1; 1.2; 1.4; 1.6; 1.8];
alttab = [0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 40000 50000 70000];
Ttab = 1000*[24.2 24.0  20.3 17.3 14.5 12.2 10.2 5.7 3.4 0.1;
    28.0 24.6 21.1 18.1 15.2 12.8 10.7 6.5 3.9 0.2;
    28.3 25.2 21.9 18.7 15.9 13.4 11.2 7.3 4.4 0.4;
    30.8 27.2 23.8 20.5 17.3 14.7 12.3 8.1 4.9 0.8;
    34.5 30.3 26.6 23.2 19.8 16.8 14.1 9.4 5.6 1.1;
    37.9 34.3 30.4 26.8 23.3 19.8 16.8 11.2 6.8 1.4;
    36.1 38.0 34.9 31.3 27.3 23.6 20.1 13.4 8.3 1.7;
    36.1 36.6 38.5 36.1 31.6 28.1 24.2 16.2 10.0 2.2;
    36.1 35.2 42.1 38.7 35.7 32.0 28.1 19.3 11.9 2.9;
    36.1 33.8 45.7 41.3 39.8 34.6 31.1 21.7 13.3 3.1];
M2     = [0 0.4 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8];
Clalphatab = [3.44 3.44 3.44 3.58 4.44 3.44 3.01 2.86 2.44];
CD0tab    = [0.013 0.013 0.013 0.014 0.031 0.041 0.039 0.036 0.035];
etatab    = [0.54 0.54 0.54 0.75 0.79 0.78 0.89 0.93 0.93];
M         = Mtab;
alt       = alttab;
Re        = 20902900;
mmu        = 0.14076539e17;
S         = 530;
g0        = 32.208;
ISP       = 1600;
H         = 23800;
rho0      = 0.002378;

rho = interp1(hTab,rhoTab,h*0.3048,'pchip')*0.001941;
sos1 = interp1(hTab,sosTab,h*0.3048,'pchip')./0.3048;
Mach = v/sos1;

CD0       = interp1(M2,CD0tab,Mach,'pchip');
Clalpha   = interp1(M2,Clalphatab,Mach,'pchip');
eta       = interp1(M2,etatab,Mach,'pchip');

T = interp2(alttab, Mtab, Ttab, h, Mach, 'spline');
CD      = CD0 + eta.*Clalpha.*aalpha.^2;
CL      = Clalpha.*aalpha;
dynpres = 0.5.*rho.*v.^2;
D       = dynpres.*S.*CD;
L       = dynpres.*S.*CL;

equ = collocate({
    dot(h) == v.*sin(fpa);
    dot(v) == ((T.*cos(aalpha)-D)./m - mmu.*sin(fpa)./(Re+h).^2);
    dot(fpa) == (T.*sin(aalpha)+L)./(m.*v)+cos(fpa).*(v./(Re+h)-mmu./(v.*(Re+h).^2));
    dot(m) == -T./(g0.*ISP);
    });

options = struct;
options.name = 'Minimum Time to Climb (English)';
options.scale = 'auto';

% Strating guess of fpa is in confilct with the boundary conditions, but
% that's ok. (It will give a warning, which we suppress.)
warns = warning('off', 'tomSym:x0OutOfBounds');

Solve the problem

ezsolve(t_f,{cbox,bnd,equ},guess,options);

% Restore warning
warning(warns);
Problem type appears to be: lpcon
Auto-scaling
Starting numeric solver
===== * * * =================================================================== * * *
TOMLAB - Tomlab Optimization Inc. Development license  999001. Valid to 2011-02-05
=====================================================================================
Problem: ---  1: Minimum Time to Climb (English)  f_k     318.348640855983830000
                                         sum(|constr|)      0.000000000071504559
                                f(x_k) + sum(|constr|)    318.348640856055340000
                                                f(x_0)    300.000000000000000000

Solver: snopt.  EXIT=0.  INFORM=1.
SNOPT 7.2-5 NLP code
Optimality conditions satisfied

FuncEv    1 ConstrEv  103 ConJacEv  102 Iter   53 MinorIter 2136
CPU time: 4.750000 sec. Elapsed time: 3.625000 sec. 

Plot result

subplot(2,1,1)
ezplot([1e-3*h, 1e-1*v, fpa*180/pi, 1e-1*m])
legend('1e-3*h', '1e-1*v', 'fpa*180/pi', '1e-1*m');
title('Minimum Time to Climb (English Units) state variables');

subplot(2,1,2)
ezplot(aalpha);
title('Minimum Time to Climb (English Units) control');