Manuel Soler

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Books

  1. Fundamentals of Aerospace Engineering (an Introductory course to Aeronautical Engineering).  Manuel Soler. Manuel Soler [Ed]. First Edition (2014), ISBN 978-14-937277-5-9. Second Edition (2017), ISBN 978-19-744573-4-5.
  2. Commercial Aircraft Trajectory Planning based on Multiphase Mixed-Integer Optimal Control. Manuel Soler. OMM Editorial, 2013. ISBN 978-84-941248-1-5. Get an e-Copy

Reports

  1. M. Soler, I. Ortiz, E. Dimitropoulou, P. Buyl, N. Clerbaux, J. García-Heras, A. Jafarimoghaddam, H. Brenot, J. van Gent, K. Sievers, E. Otero, P. Loganathan, V. Villaplana, G. Pérez. Making Contrails Visible: AI-Based Insights into Aviation’s Climate Impact using Satellite Imagery. E-CONTRAIL project Policy Brief. 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17534712
  2. de Zárate, F., Calvi, F., & SOLER, M. (2025). Un problema de altos vuelos. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17534862

Book Chapters

  1. RRT*-Based Algorithm for Trajectory Planning Considering Probabilistic Weather Forecasts. E Andrés, M Kamgarpour, M Soler, M Sanjurjo-Rivo, D González-Arribas. Air Traffic Management and Systems IV: Selected Papers of the 6th ENRI International Workshop on ATM/CNS (EIWAC2019). Springer, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4669-7_14. Print ISBN: 978-981-334-668-0 Electronic ISBN: 978-981-334-669-7
  2. Multiobjective Optimisation of Aircraft Trajectories Under Wind Uncertainty Using GPU Parallelism and Genetic Algorithms. Daniel González-Arribas, Manuel Sanjrujo, and Manuel Soler. In: Andrés-Pérez E., González L., Periaux J., Gauger N., Quagliarella D., Giannakoglou K. (eds) Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design Optimization and Control With Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 49., pp 453-466. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-89889-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89890-2_29
  3. Robust Optimal Trajectory Planning under Uncertain Winds and Convective Risk. Daniel González-Arribas, Javier García-Heras, Manuel Soler, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo, Ulrike Gelhardt, Juergen Lang, Thomas Hauf, and Juan Simarro. Air Traffic Management and Systems III Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 555, pp. 82-103. Springer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7086-1_6

Journal Papers

  1. Nicolas Clerbaux, Jeroen van gent, Hugues Brenot, Javier García-Heras, Manuel Soler.
  2. Rémi Chevallier, Andreas Guitart, Daniel Delahaye, Manuel Soler, Integrating realistic 3D aircraft trajectory optimization with climate impact metrics for sustainable aviation, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives,
    Volume 37, 2026, 101983, ISSN 2590-1982, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2026.101983.
  3. Quibén, R., Cavallaro, R., Soler, M. Multidisciplinary design optimization of hydrogen-powered transport aircraft. Under Review in Journal of Aircraft. Pre-print https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4664-1693
  4. Martin Frias, Alejandra and Houston, Larissa Jane H. and Zopp, Raimund and Soler, Manuel. Equitable Non-CO2 Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Framework for Airline Contrail Mitigation. Submitted to Transportation Research Part A (under review, 2026) Available as preprint at SSRN:  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6179589
  5. Baneshi, F., Cerezo M., Soler. Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Climate-Aware Aircraft Trajectory Planning Considering Air Traffic Complexity. Knowledge Based Systems, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2025.114826 
  6. Jafarimoghaddam, A. and Soler, M.: A multi-physics Eulerian framework for long-term contrail evolution, Atmoshperic Chemistry and Physics. EGUsphere [Under Review Preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4155, 2025.
  7. Simorgh, Abolfazl and Soler, Manuel, Feasibility of Integrating Multiple Climate Impact Estimation Models to Enhance Confidence in Environmentally-Friendly Aircraft Trajectory Optimization. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Volume 34, November 2025, 101692 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2025.101692 
  8. A Directional-ODE Framework for Discretization of Advection-Diffusion Equations A Jafarimoghaddam, M Soler, I Ortiz. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.06543
  9. I. Ortiz, J. García-Heras, A. Jafarimoghaddam and M. Soler. Robust Evaluation of Neural Networks Trained on the OpenContrails Dataset. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/ TGRS.2025.3629628
  10. Baneshi, F., Cerezo M., Soler. Network-Level Aircraft Trajectory Planning via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning: Balancing Climate Considerations and Operational Manageability. Expert Systems with Applications. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.126604
  11. Á. Moreno Soto, A. Cervantes and M. Soler, Physics-informed neural networks for high-resolution weather reconstruction from sparse weather stations, Open Res. Europe 4, 99, 1-16 (2024). DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.17388.1
  12. Amin Jafarimoghaddam and Manuel Soler. The applicability of Zermelo’s equation to indirect and direct optimization of commercial aircraft flights«. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2024.07.004
  13. Simorgh, A., Soler, M. Climate-optimized flight planning can effectively reduce the environmental footprint of aviation in Europe at low operational costs. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 66 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02031-8
  14. Baneshi, F., Cerezo M., Soler, M. Integrating Non-CO2 Climate Impact Considerations in Air Traffic Management: Opportunities and Challenges. Transport Policy, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.06.023.
  15. Amin Jafarimoghaddam and Manuel Soler. The Indirect Bang-Singular Algorithm (IBSA) for Singular Control Problems with State-Inequality Constraints. European Journal of Control, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcon.2024.101071
  16. Thomas Frekhaug, Manuel Sanjurjo, Manuel Soler, Jennifer Hudson, Marcelo Romano. Robust Model Predictive Control for Proximity Operations with Experimental Demonstrations. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2024 https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G008190
  17. Simorgh, A., Soler, M. Cerezo, Castino, F., Yin, F. Concept of Robust Climate-Friendly Flight Planning under Multiple Climate Impact Estimates. Transportation Research Part D – Transport and Environment. Volume 131, June 2024, 104215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2024.104215
  18. A. Moreno Soto, A. Cervantes, M. Soler. Physics-informed neural networks for high-resolution weather reconstruction from sparse weather stations. Open Research Europe.  https://dx.doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.17388.1
  19. A. Frías, M. Saphiro, Z. Engberg, R. Zoop, M. Soler, M. Stettler. Feasibility of contrail avoidance in a commercial flight planning system: an operational analysis. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2024.  DOI: 0.1088/2634-4505/ad310c
  20. Simorgh, A., Soler, M., Dietmüller, S., Matthes, S., Yamashita, H., Castino, F., Yin, F: Robust 4D Climate-Optimal Aircraft Trajectory Planning under Weather-Induced Uncertainties: Free-Routing Airspace. Transportation Research Part D – Transport and Environment. Volume 131, June 2024, 104196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2024.104196
  21. Amin Jafarimoghaddam and Manuel Soler. Multi-Control Commercial Aircraft Trajectory Optimization in a Vertical Plane with State-Inequality Constraints via Singular Control Theory. European Journal of Control, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcon.2023.100930 
  22. Rémi Chevallier, Marc Shapiro, Zebediah Engberg, Manuel Soler, Daniel Delahaye. Condensation Trails Detection, Tracking and Matching with Aircraft using Geostationary Satellite and Air Traffic data. Aerospace, 10(7), 578, 2023; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10070578
  23. Amin Jafarimoghaddam and Manuel Soler. Time-Fuel-Optimal Navigation of a Commercial Aircraft in Cruise with Heading and Throttle Controls using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle«. IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS). Vol 7, pp. 2970-2975. 2023 DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3288471
  24. Shumpei Kamo, Judith Rosenow, Manuel Soler, and Harmut Fricke. Robust Optimization Integrating Aircraft Trajectory and Sequence under Weather Forecast Uncertainty. Transportation Research Part C. Volume 152, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2023.104187
  25. Federica Castino, Feijia Yin, Volker Grewe, Hiroshi Yamashita, Sigrun Matthes, Simone Dietmüller, Sabine Baumann, Manuel Soler, Abolfazl Simorgh, Maximilian Mendiguchia Meuser, Florian Linke, and Benjamin Lührs. Decision-making strategies implemented in SolFinder 1.0 to identify eco-efficient aircraft trajectories: application study in AirTraf 3.0 Geoscientific Model Development (GMD). Special issue: The Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy) (ACP/GMD inter-journal SI). https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2023-88/
  26. Thomas Frekhaug, Manuel Sanjurjo, Manuel Soler. Output-Feedback Tube Model Predictive Control for Asteroid Circumnavigation and Descent. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Published Online:13 Jun 2023. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G007522
  27. Aniel Jardines, Manuel Soler, Javier García-Heras, Laure Raynaud, Matteo Ponzano. Pre-tactical Convection Prediction for Air Traffic Flow Management using LSTM Neural Network. Meteorological Applications. Vol. 31, Issue 3, 2024 DOI: 10.1002/met.2215.
  28. Amin Jafarimoghaddam and Manuel Soler. The average NonLinear Programming: some theoretical and practical aspects.  Optimal Control Methods and Applications. Under Review.
  29. Iván Martínez, Aniel Jardines, Manuel Soler, Alejandro Cervantes, Javier García-Heras. Predicting Air Traffic Flow Management Regulations due to Weather using Convolutional Neural Networks. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Volume 133, Part A, 2024, 108014, ISSN 0952-1976, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108014.
  30. Jardines, Aniel and Eivazi, Hamidreza and Zea, Elías and Simarro, Juan and García-Heras, Javier and Soler, Manuel and Otero, Evelyn and Vinuesa, Ricardo, Thunderstorm Prediction During Pre-Tactical Air-Traffic-Flow Management Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Expert Systems with Applications. 10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122466
  31. Simorgh, A., Soler, M., González-Arribas, D., Linke, F., Lührs, B., Meuser, M. M., Dietmüller, S., Matthes, S., Yamashita, H., Yin, F., Castino, F., Grewe, V., and Baumann, S.: Robust 4D Climate Optimal Flight Planning in Structured Airspace using Parallelized Simulation on GPUs: ROOST V1.0, Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Vol. 16, Issue 3, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3723-2023
  32. Dietmüller, S. Matthes, S., Dahlmann, K., Yamashita, H., Soler, M., Simorgh, A., Linke, F., Lührs, B., Mendiguchia Meuser, M. , Weder, C., Yin, F., Castino, F., Grewe, V.: A python library for computing individual and merged non-CO2 algorithmic climate change functions: CLIMaCCF V1.0, Geoscientific Model Development (GMD). Vol. 16, Issue 15, 4405–4425, 2023. https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/16/4405/2023/
  33. Fateme Baneshi, Abolfazl Simorgh, Manuel Soler. Conflict Assessment and Resolution of Climate Optimal Aircraft Trajectories at Network Scale.  Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. Volume 115, February 2023, 103592 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103592
  34. Eduardo Andrés, Maryam Kamgarpour, Manuel Soler, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo and Daniel González-Arribas. Iterative Graph Deformation for Aircraft Trajectory Planning Considering Ensemble Forecasting of Thunderstorms.  Transportation Research Part C 145 (2022) 103919 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2022.103919
  35. Fateme Baneshi, Valiollah Ghaffari, Manuel Soler. Non-Fragile Robust Model Predictive Controller Design for Uncertain Time-delay Systems with Input Constraints. International Journal of Systems Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207721.2023.2169060
  36. Fast 4D Flight Planning under Uncertainty through Parallel Stochastic Path Simulation. by González-Arribas, Daniel; Andrés, Eduardo; Soler, Manuel; Jardines, Aniel; García-Heras, Javier. Transportation Research Part C. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2023.104018
  37. Jafarimoghaddam A, Soler M. Perturbed-analytic direct transcription for optimalcontrol (PADOC). Optimal Control Applications and Methods. Volume 44, Issue 4 July/August 2023. Pages 2022-2054. doi: 10.1002/oca.2965
  38. Air Traffic Complexity Map Based on Linear Dynamical Systems. Daniel Delahaye, Adrián Garcia, Julien Lavandier, Supatcha Chaimatanan, Manuel Soler. Aerospace MDPI. Aerospace 2022, 9(5), 230; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9050230
  39. A Comprehensive Survey on Recent Climate Optimal Aircraft Trajectory Planning. Abolfazl Simorgh *, Manuel Soler, Daniel González-Arribas, Sigrun  Matthes, Volker Grewe, Simone Dietmüller, Sabine Baumann, Hiroshi Yamashita,  Feijia Yin, Federica Castino, Florian Linke, Benjamin Lührs, Maximilian Meuser. Aerospace 2022, 9(3), 146;  https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9030146
  40. Kamo, S.; Rosenow, J.; Fricke, H.; Soler, M. Fundamental Framework to Plan 4D Robust Descent Trajectories for Uncertainties in Weather Prediction. Aerospace 2022, 9, 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9020109 
  41. The Optimal Decomposition Method for Nonlinear Problems. by Amin Jafarimoghaddam; Manuel Soler; Abolfazl Simorgh. Journal of Computational Science. Available online 29 April 2022, 101690 10.1016/j.jocs.2022.101690
  42. A Survey on Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization. by David Morante, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo, and Manuel Soler. Aerospace MDPI, 2021, 8(3) 88. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace8030088
  43. Estimating Entry Counts and ATFM Regulations during Adverse Weather Conditions using Machine Learning. Aniel Jardines, Manuel Soler, Javier García-Heras. Journal of Air Traffic Management, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2021.102109
  44. Convection Indicator for Pre-Tactical Air Traffic Flow Management using Neural Network. Aniel Jardines, Alejandro Cervantes, Manuel Soler, Javier García-Heras, and Juan Simarro.  Machine Learning with Applications. 2021-06 | journal-article DOI: 10.1016/j.mlwa.2021.100053
  45. Informed Scenario-Based RRT for Aircraft Trajectory Planning under Ensemble Forecasting of Thunderstorms. Eduardo Andrés, Maryam Kamgarpour, Manuel Soler, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo and Daniel González-Arribas. Transportation Research Part C, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103232
  46. Robust Flight Planning Impact Assessment Considering Convective Phenomena. Javier García-Heras, Manuel Soler, Daniel González-Arribas, Kurt Eschbacher, Carl-Herbert Rokitansky, Daniel Sacher, Ulrike Gelhardt, Juergen Lang, Thomas Hauf, Juan Simarro, Alfonso Valenzuela, Antonio Franco, Damián Rivas. Transportation Research Part C , 2021 (Vol. 123). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.102968
  47. Influence of atmospheric uncertainty, convective indicators, and cost-index on the leveled aircraft trajectory optimization problem. Manuel Soler, Daniel González-Arribas, Javier García-Heras, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo, Ulrike Gelhardt, Juergen Lang, Thomas Hauf, and Juan Simarro. Transportation Research Part C. Volume 120, November 2020, 102784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.102784
  48. Hybrid Multi-objective Orbit-Raising with Operational Constraints. David Morante, Manuel Sanjurjo, Manuel Soler, and José Manuel Sánchez.  Acta Astronautica. (2020) 175 447-461 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2020.05.022
  49. Robust aircraft trajectory planning under uncertain convective environments with optimal control and rapidly developing thunderstorms. Daniel González-Arribas, Manuel Soler, Manuel Sanjurjo, Maryam Kamgarpour, and Juan Simarro.  Aerospace Science and Technology. Volume 89, June 2019, Pages 445-459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2019.03.051
  50. Characterization and Enhancement of Flight Planning Predictability under Wind Uncertainty. Javier GARCÍA-HERAS, Manuel Soler, Daniel González-Arribas. International Journal of Aerospace Engineering. vol. 2019, Article ID 6141452, 29 pages, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/6141452
  51. A simulated annealing approach to 3D strategic aircraft deconfliction based on en-route speed changes under wind and temperature uncertainties.  Valentin Courchelle, Manuel Soler, Daniel González-Arribas, and Daniel Delahaye. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. Volume 103, June 2019, Pages 194-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.03.024
  52. Multiobjective Low-Thrust Interplanetary Trajectory Optimization based on Generalized Logaritmic Spirals. David Morante, Manuel Sanjrujo, and Manuel Soler. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 42(3), pp. 476-490, 2019 https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G003702
  53. On Maximizing Safety in Stochastic Aircraft Trajectory Planning with Uncertain Thuderstorm Development. Daniel Hentzen, Daniel González-Arribas, Maryam Kamgarpour, and Manuel Soler. Aerospace Science and Technology. Volume 79, August 2018, Pages 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2018.06.006  Arxiv
  54. Robust Aircraft Trajectory Planning under Wind Uncertainty using Optimal Control. D. González-Arribas, Manuel Soler, and Manuel Sanjrujo. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.  Vol. 41, No. 3 (2018), pp. 673-688. http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G002928 Accepted version
  55. Automated Optimal Flight Planning based on the Aircraft Intent Description Language.  D. González-Arribas, Manuel Soler, Javier López-Leonés, Enrique Casado, and Manuel Sanjurjo. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G: Jornal of Aerospace Engineering. 233(3), pp. 928-948, 2019. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0954410017751990
  56. A Hybrid Optimal Control Approach to Fuel Efficient Aircraft Conflict Avoidance. Soler, Manuel; Kamgarpour, Maryam; Lloret, Javier; Lygeros, John. IEEE  Transactions on Intelligent Transportation. Vol. 17. No. 7. pp. 1826-1838, July 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2015.2510824
  57. Pseudospectral Collocation Methods to Aircraft Minimum Fuel Trajectory Problems with Required Time of Arrival.Javier GARCÍA-HERAS, Manuel SOLER, Francisco Javier SÁEZ NIETO. Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Vol. 13, No. 7 (2016), pp. 243-265. DOI: 10.2514/1.I010401
  58. Multiphase Optimal Control Framework for Commercial Aircraft 4D Flight Planning Problems. M. Soler, A. Olivares and E. Staffetti.  Journal of Aircraft. Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 274-286 2015. DOI: 10.2514/1.C032697
  59. Flight Trajectory Design in the Presence of Contrails: Application of a Multiphase Mixed-Integer Optimal Control Approach. M. Soler, B. Zou, M. Hansen. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. Volume 48, November 2014, Pages 172–194 DOI 10.1016/j.trc.2014.08.009
  60. Multiphase Mixed-Integer Optimal Control Approach to Aircraft Trajectory Optimization. P. Bonami, A. Olivares, M. Soler, and E. Staffetti, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Vol. 36, No. 5 : pp. 1267-1277; September 2013. DOI 10.2514/1.60492
  61. Framework for Aircraft 4D Trajectory Planning Towards an Efficient Air Traffic Management. M. Soler, D. Zapata, A. Olivares, E. Staffetti. Journal of Aircraft. Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 341-348; January-February 2012. DOI: 10.2514/1.C031490
  62. Hybrid Optimal Control Approach to Commercial Aircraft Trayectory Planning. M. Soler, A. Olivares and E. Staffetti. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 985-991; May–June 2010. DOI: 10.2514/1.47458

Special Issues

  1. Editorial: Optimal Control Techniques in Aircraft Guidance and Control. Ernesto Staffetti, Xiang Li, Yoshinori Matsuno, and Manuel Soler. International Journal of Aerospace Engineering. Volume 2019, Article ID 3026083, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/3026083

Peer-reviewed conference papers and communications.

  1. Simorgh, A., Bola, O. M., Garcia-Heras, J., Soler, M., Grubbe Hildebrandt, K., Castino, F., Yin, F., Meuser, M. M., Zengerling, Z. L., Lau, A., Dietmüller, S., & Matthes, S. Robust climate-optimal flight planning using probabilistic algorithmic climate change functions for ozone. The 5th ECATS conference, Brussels, Belgium. 2026.
  2. Raúl Quibén Figueroa, Tânia Ferreira, Catherine Gorlé, Manuel Soler. Comparing high-fidelity LES of early contrail formation with ground-based images. EGU’25. AS3.19 – Advances in modelling contrails and aircraft-cirrus interactions.
  3. Amin Jafarimoghaddam, Irene Ortiz, and Manuel Soler. On the long-term propagation of contrails using a novel high-fidelity advection-diffusion model. EGU’25. AS3.19 – Advances in modelling contrails and aircraft-cirrus interactions.
  4. Irene Ortiz, Abolfazl Simorgh, Javier García-Heras, Ermioni Dimitropoulou, Pierre de Buyl, Nicolas Clerbaux, and Manuel Soler. Assessing Contrail Radiative Effects: A Comparison of MTG Satellite Detections and Physics-Based Simulations. EGU’25. AS3.19 – Advances in modelling contrails and aircraft-cirrus interactions.
  5. Alvaro Moreno-Soto, Manuel Soler, Stefano Discetti. Physics-informed image inpainting for fluid flow reconstruction. APS-DFD 2024 (The 77th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics).
  6. Irene Ortiz, Ermioni Dimitropoulou, Pierre de Buyl, Nicolas Clerbaux, Javier García-Heras, Amin Jafarimoghaddam, Hugues Brenot, Jeroen van Gent, Klaus Sievers, Evelyn Otero, Parthiban Loganathan, Manuel Soler. Satellite-Based Quantification of Contrail Radiative Forcing over Europe: A Two-Week Analysis of Aviation-Induced Climate Effects. Submitted to SESAR Innovation Days 2024. Pre-Print @ https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10166
  7. Bûn-Kim San, Manuel Soler, Álvaro Moreno, Javier García-Heras. Wind reconstruction and nowcasting from weather station observation using physic-informed AI, ESA-ECMWF Workshop on Machine Learning for Earth System Observation and Prediction 2024, Frascati, Italy, 7-10 May 2024.
  8. Ortiz, I., Soler, M., García-Heras, J., Brenot, H., Clerbaux, N., and de Buyl, P.: Advancing Contrail Detection Methods over European Skies, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-21987, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-21987, 2024.
  9. Amin Jafarimoghaddam, Manuel Soler. Time-Fuel-Optimal Navigation of a Commercial Aircraft in Cruise with Heading and Throttle Controls Using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle. 2023, 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
  10. Alvaro Moreno-Soto, Manuel Soler, Stefano Discetti.  Physics-informed neural network for enhancement of weather forecasts APS-DFD 2023 (The 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics)
  11. Fateme Baneshi and Manuel Soler. A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Conflict Resolution of Climate Optimal Trajectories. EUCASS conference. July 9-13, 2023, Laussane, Switzerland.
  12. Abolfazl Simorgh and Manuel Soler. Robust climate optimal flight planning toward identifying “win-win” solutions: concept of equivalent CO2 emissions. EUCASS conference. July 9-13, 2023, Laussane, Switzerland.
  13. Simorgh, A., & Soler, M. (2023). Free-routing climate-friendly flight planning using the GPU-based trajectory optimizer ROOST (4th ECATS conference). ( Delft, The Netherlands, October 24 – 26, 2023)
  14. R Quibén Figueroa, R Cavallaro, A Cini, M Soler Arnedo .MOTIVATION (Mdao fOr susTaInable aViATION) – Framework development for the design and optimization of H2 powered aircraft. AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum, 4151
  15. Alejandra Frías, Raimund Zopp, and Manuel Soler. Enhancing environmental sustainability in aviation: an implementation of contrail mitigation strategies in commercial flight dispatching. ATM R&D Seminar 2023. June 5th – 9th in Savannah, Georgia
  16. Marta Sánchez, Danlin Zheng, Pablo Gil, Gilles Gawinowski, Ramon Dalmau, Manuel Soler, Javier García-Heras, Iván Martínez, Aniel Jardines. Machine Learning to Predict Convective Weather and its Impact on En-Route Capacity. ATM R&D Seminar 2023. June 5th – 9th in Savannah, Georgia
  17. Abolfazl Simorgh and Manuel Soler. Cost-Effective Climate-Friendly Aircraft Flight Planning.  EGU23-17504. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 April, 2023 .
  18. Fateme Baneshi and Manuel Soler. Network Assessment of the Aviation Climate Impact Considering the European Structured Airspace. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 April, 2023.
  19. Ponzano, M., Raynaud, L., Sanchez Cidoncha, M., Gawinowski, G., Soler Arnedo, M. F., Jardines, A., Simarro, J., Zheng, D., Xu, Y., Bastie, E., Arnould, B., Rey, F., Khassiba, A., Peuaud, A., and Carré, M.: ISOBAR SESAR – Artificial intelligence solutions to meteo-based air traffic imbalances for network operations planning, EMS Annual Meeting 2022, Bonn, Germany, 5–9 Sep 2022, EMS2022-122, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2022-122, 2022.
  20. Abolfazl Simorgh and Manuel Soler, Economically Beneficial Robust Climate Optimal Aircraft Trajectories. Submitted to IWAC’22.
  21. Fateme Baneshi, Manuel Soler, Abolfazl Simorgh and Ivan Martinez. Demand Assessment for Climate Optimal Trajectories at Network Scale.  IWAC’22.
  22. Eduardo Andrés, Manuel Soler, Tony Wood, Maryam Kamgarpour, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo and Juan Simarro. Multi-Aircraft Trajectory Deformation for Uncertain Thunderstorm Avoidance and Conflict Resolution. IWAC’22.
  23. Fateme Baneshi, Manuel Soler, Abolfazl Simorgh, Daniel González-Arribas and Eduardo Andres. Climate Optimal Trajectory Planning at Network-Scale: Complexity Assessment Based on Probabilistic Conflicts. ICRAT’2022. Tampa (Florida).
  24. Manuel Soler, Eduardo Andrés, Javier García-Heras, Daniel González, Damián Rivas, Alfonzo Valenzuela, Antonio Franco, Juan Manuel Nuñez, Petar Andrasi and Tomislav Radisic. Probabilistic Analysis of Air Traffic in Adverse Weather Scenarios. ICRAT’2022. Tampa (Florida).
  25. Abolfazl Simorgh, Manuel Soler, Daniel González-Arribas: Robust Climate Optimal Aircraft Trajectory Planning Considering Uncertainty in Weather Forecast. Proceedings of the 2022 CEAS EuroGNC conference. Berlin, Germany. May 2022. CEAS-GNC-2022-043
  26. Federica Castino, F. Yin, V. Grewe, B. Lührs, F. Linke, H. Yamasita, S. Dietmüller, S. Matthes, A. Simorgh, M. Soler. Seasonal Variability of Aircraft Trajectories Reducing NOx-climate Impacts under a Multitude of Weather Patterns. SESAR Innovation days 2021. Online.
  27. Robust CDO Trajectory Planning under Uncertainties in Weather Prediction. by Shumpei Kamo, Judith Rosenow, Hartmut Fricke, and Manuel Soler. 14th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar.
  28. Data-driven methodology for uncertainty quantification of aircraft trajectory predictions A Guemes, M Polaina, D Gonzalez Arribas, M Soler, J Pons-Prats, X Prats, et. al. 40th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2021
  29. Jardines, A., Soler, M., García-Heras, J., Ponzano, M., Raynaud, L., Rottner, L., Simarro, J., and Rey, F.: Predicting Convective Storm Characteristics using Machine Learning from Hi-Resolution NWP Forecasts, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7516, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7516, 2021
  30. GPU-Accelerated RRT for Flight Planning Considering Ensemble Forecasting of Thunderstorms. Eduardo Andrés, Daniel González-Arribas, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo, Manuel Soler and Maryam Kamgarpour. SESAR Innovation Days 2020. Held virtually due to COVID.
  31. Probabilistic 4D Flight Planning in Structured Airspaces through Parallelized Simulation on GPUs. Daniel González-Arribas, Aniel Jardines, Manuel Soler, Javier García-Heras, and Eduardo Andrés-Enderiz. International Conference for Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT) 2020. Held virtually due to COVID.
  32. Neural Network-based Convection Indicator for Pre-Tactical Air Traffic Flow Management. Aniel Jardines, Manuel Soler, Javier García-Heras, Alejandro Cervantes Rovira. ICRAT 2020. International Conference for Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT) 2020. Held virtually due to COVID.
  33. Longitudinal flight control system design via Laguerre based model predictive control. Massoud Hemmasian Ettefagh, Manuel Soler, and Hai-Tao Zhang. 2020 European Control Conference (ECC), 1496-1501.
  34. Data-Driven Occupancy Prediction in Adverse Weather Conditions using Thunderstorm and Traffic Observations. Aniel Jardines, Javier García-Heras, and Manuel Soler. SESAR Innovation days, 2019, Athens.
  35. Scenario-Based RRT* for Aircraft Trajectory Planning under Uncertain Thunderstorm Development. Eduardo Andrés-Enderiz, D. González-Arribas, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo, Maryam Kamgarpour, and Manuel Soler. ENRI International Workshop on. ATM/CNS (EIWAC) 2019, Tokio.
  36. ANALYSIS OF A RENDEZVOUS MISSION IN NON-KEPLERIAN ORBIT USING ELECTRIC PROPULSION. Rubén Vega, David Morante, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo and Manuel Soler. 7th International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques (ICATT). Organized by ESA. 6-9 Nov, 2018. DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
  37. MOLTO-OR: A MULTI-OBJECTIVE LOW-THRUST OPTIMIZATION TOOL FOR ORBIT RAISING. David Morante, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo and Manuel Soler. 7th International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques (ICATT). Organized by ESA. 6-9 Nov, 2018. DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
  38. MOLTO-IT: A MULTI-OBJECTIVE LOW-THRUST OPTIMIZATION TOOL FOR INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORIES. David Morante,  Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo and Manuel Soler. 7th International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques (ICATT). Organized by ESA. 6-9 Nov, 2018. DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
  39. Effects Of Weather Uncertainty In Sector Demand At Tactical Level. Valenzuela, A. Franco, D. Sacher, J. García-Heras, and M. Soler. International Symposium on Sustainable Aviation 9 – 11 July 2018, Rome (Italy)
  40. Simulated annealing for strategic traffic deconfliction by subliminal speed control under wind uncertainties. V. Courchelle, M.Soler, D. González-Arribas, and D. Delahaye. SESAR Innovation Days’17. Belgrade.
  41. Effects of Reducing Wind-Induced Trajectory Uncertainty on Sector Demand. A. Valenzuela, A. Franco, D. Rivas, J. García-Heras, M. Soler. SESAR Innovation Days’17. Belgrade. ISBN 978-92-9216-095-1. pp 472-486.
  42. Multiobjective Optimization of Aircraft Trajectories under Wind Uncertainty using GPU Parallelism and Genetic Algorithms. D. González-Arribas, Manuel Samjurjo, Manuel Soler. International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems (EuroGEN) 2017, Madrid.
  43. Simulation based validation of a mixed-integer optimal control algorithm for conflict detection and resolution using TAAM software. Andrés Muñoz and Manuel Soler. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration , and Operations Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum (AIAA 2017-3436).  https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-3436
  44. Optimal Aircraft Trajectory Planning in the Presence of Stochastic Convective Weather Cells. Daniel González-Arribas, Daniel Hentzen,  Manuel Sanjurjo, Manuel Soler, and Maryam Kamgarpour. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration , and Operations Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum (AIAA 2017-3431).  https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2017-3431
  45. MULTIOBJECTIVE TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION DURING ORBIT RAISING WITH COMBINED CHEMICAL-ELECTRIC PROPULSION. David Morante,  Manuel Sanjurjo and Manuel Soler. 2017 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
  46. ROBUST OPTIMIZATION OF DESCENT TRAJECTORIES ON IRREGULAR-SHAPED BODIES IN THE PRESENCE OF UNCERTAINTY. Pablo Machuca, Daniel González-Arribas, David Morante-González, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo, and Manuel Soler. 2017 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
  47. Robust Optimal Trajectory Planning under Uncertain Winds and Convective Risk. Daniel González-Arribas, Manuel Soler, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo, Ulrike Gelhardt, Juergen Lang, Thomas Hauf, and Juan Simarro. ENRI Workshop 2017, Tokio.
  48. ATM Performance Analysis considering Minimum Climatology Impact Trajectories. Javier Garcéa-Heras, Manuel Soler, Guillermo Puelles, and Marcos Sanz. Submitted to ENRI Workshop 2017.
  49. Wind-Based Robust Aircraft Route Optimization using Meteorological Ensemble Prediction Systems. D. González-Arribas, Manuel Soler, Manuel Sanjurjo. In proceedings of SESAR Innovation Days 2016 (SIDs’16). Eurocontrol, D. Shaefer (Ed.). ISSN 0770-1268. pp. 1-8.
  50. SEQUENTIAL METHOD TO COMPUTE MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST EARTH ORBIT TRANSFERS. D. Morante, Manuel Soler, Manuel Sanjurjo. ICATT’16 (6th International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and techniques)
  51. ATM performance analysis in Madrid ACC sectors considering optimal aircraft trajectories. Guillermo Orenga and Manuel Soler. 6th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation 2016, ICRAT’16
  52. Wind-optimal cruise trajectories using pseudospectral methods and ensemble probabilistic forecasts. D. González-Arribas, M. Soler, and M. Sanjurjo. Proceedings of ATACCS’15. – 5th International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems pp. 160-167
  53. Low-Thrust Earth-orbit transfer optimization using analytical averaging within a sequential method. David Morante González, Manuel Sanjurjo, and Manuel Soler. 2015 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
  54. Conflict pattern analysis under the consideration of optimal trajectories in the European ATM. Sergio Ruiz and Manuel Soler.Proceedings of the 11th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, ATM Seminar 2015.
  55. Optimization of path-Constrained Systems using Pseudospectral Methods applied to Aircraft Trajectory Planning. Daniel González-Arribas, Manuel Sanjurjo, and Manuel Soler.  2015 IFAC Workshop on Advanced Control and Navigation for Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles. IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline) Volume 48, Issue 9, 1 July 2015, Pages 192-197
  56. A Numerical Framework and Benchmark Case study for Muti-modal Fuel Efficient Aircraft Conflict Avoidance. Manuel Soler, Maryam Kamgarpour, and John Lygeros. 6th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT). Instabul,  2014.
  57. A comparison of optimal control methods for minimum fuel cruise at constant altitude and course with fixed arrival time. Javier GARCÍA-HERAS, Manuel SOLER, Francisco Javier SÁEZ NIETO. Procedia Engineering. Vol. 80, 2014, pp. 231–244. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2014.09.083
  58. Contrail Sensitive 4D Trajectory Planning with Flight Level Allocation using Multiphase Mixed-Integer Optimal Control. M. Soler, B. Zou, and M. Hansen, Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, August 19-22, 2013. Boston, USA. Paper AIAA 2013-5179.
  59. Multiphase Mixed-Integer Optimal Control applied to 4D Trajectory Planning in Air Traffic Management. A. Olivares, M. Soler, and E. Staffetti, , Proceedings of ATACCS’13, HALA research network conference, May 28-30, 2013. Npoles, Italy. ISBN: 978-2-917490-24-2, pp 104-114. Best Research Paper Award.
  60. Multiphase Mixed- Integer Optimal Control Framework for Aircraft Conflict Avoidance. M. Soler, M. Kamgarpour, C. J. Tomlin, and E. Staffetti, 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2012), December 8-11 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA. pp 1740-1745. 10.1109/CDC.2012.6426709
  61. Optimal 4D Strategic Trajectory Planning in ATM. M. Soler, A. Olivares, E. Staffetti, J. Cegarra. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Application and Theory of Automation in Command and Control Systems (ATACCS’2011). May 26-27, 2011. Barcelona, Spain. IRIT Press. ISBN: 978-2-917490-14-3. EAN: 9782917490143
  62. En-Route Optimal Flight Planning Constrained to Pass Through Waypoints using MINLP.  M. Soler, A. Olivares, E. Staffetti, P.Bonami. Proceedings of 9th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar; Berlin, June, 14-17, 2011.
  63. Hybrid Optimal Control for Aircraft Trajectory Design with a Variable Sequence of Modes. Maryam Kamgarpour, Manuel Soler, Claire J. Tomlin, Alberto Olivares and John Lygeros.Proocedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress; Milano, Aug. 29- Sep 2, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-902661-93-7.
  64. Hybrid Optimal Control Approach to Commercial Aircraft 3D Multiphase Trayectory Optimization. M. Soler, A. Olivares and E. Staffetti. Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference; Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 2-5, 2010. AIAA-2010-8453
  65. Comparative Analysis of Commercial Aircraft Trayectory Performance. M. Soler, D. Zapata, A. Olivares, E. Staffetti and J. Cegarra. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Engineering Optimization; Lisbon, Sep. 6-9, 2010. ISBN: 978-989-96264-3-0