# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2018, 10(2): 139-172. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2018005

## A note on time-optimal paths on perturbed spheroid

 1 Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, ul. Prof. St. Lojasiewicza 6, 30 - 348 Kraków, Poland 2 Gdynia Maritime University, Faculty of Navigation, Al. Jana Pawla Ⅱ 3, 81-345 Gdynia, Poland

Received  January 2016 Revised  March 2018 Published  May 2018

Fund Project: The author is supported by a grant from the Polish National Science Center under research project number 2013/09/N/ST10/02537

We consider Zermelo's problem of navigation on a spheroid in the presence of space-dependent perturbation $W$ determined by a weak velocity vector field, $|W|_h<1$. The approach is purely geometric with application of Finsler metric of Randers type making use of the corresponding optimal control represented by a time-minimal ship's heading $\varphi(t)$ (a steering direction). A detailed exposition including investigation of the navigational quantities is provided under a rotational vector field. This demonstrates, in particular, a preservation of the optimal control $\varphi(t)$ of the time-efficient trajectories in the presence and absence of acting perturbation. Such navigational treatment of the problem leads to some simple relations between the background Riemannian and the resulting Finsler geodesics, thought of the deformed Riemannian paths. Also, we show some connections with Clairaut's relation and a collision problem. The study is illustrated with an example considered on an oblate ellipsoid.

Citation: Piotr Kopacz. A note on time-optimal paths on perturbed spheroid. Journal of Geometric Mechanics, 2018, 10 (2) : 139-172. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2018005
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J.), London, Singapore, 2005. doi: 10.1142/5263.  Google Scholar [13] M. A. Earle, Sphere to spheroid comparisons, J. Navigation, 59 (2006), 491-496.   Google Scholar [14] A. de Mira Fernandes, Sul problema brachistocrono di Zermelo, Rendiconti della R. Acc. dei Lincei, XV (1932), 47-52.   Google Scholar [15] C. A. R. Herdeiro, Mira Fernandes and a generalised Zermelo problem: Purely geometric formulations, Bol. Soc. Port. Mat., 2010, Special Issue. Publication date estimated, 179-191.  Google Scholar [16] M. R. Jardin, Toward Real-Time en Route Air Traffic Control Optimization, Ph. D thesis, Stanford University, 2003. Google Scholar [17] A. B. Katok, Ergodic perturbations of degenerate integrable Hamiltonian systems, Math. USSR Izv., 37 (1973), 539-576.   Google Scholar [18] P. Kopacz, On generalization of Zermelo navigation problem on Riemannian manifolds, preprint, arXiv: 1604.06487. Google Scholar [19] P. 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The Riemannian geodesics on the spheroid $\Sigma^2$ with $a: = \frac{3}{4}$ starting from $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$, with the increments $\Delta \varphi_0 = \frac{\pi}{8}$. On the right, the corresponding solutions $x(t), y(t), z(t)$ for the point $(1, 0, 0)\in\mathbb{R}^3$; $t\leq3$
The contour plot and the graph of the norm $|W|_h$ in the case of the infinitesimal rotation as the acting mild perturbation, with $c: = \frac{5}{7}$
The geodesics of the new Riemannian metric $\alpha$ starting from $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$, with the increments $\Delta \varphi_0 = \frac{\pi}{8}$ (16 curves); $t\leq3$
The time-efficient paths on the spheroid with $a: = \frac{3}{4}$ starting from $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$, with the increments $\Delta \varphi_0 = \frac{\pi}{8}$, $t\leq3$ (left) and divided into time segments with $t\in[0, 1) \text{- red}, t\in[1, 2) \text{- blue}, t\in[2, 3] \text{ - purple}$. Right: "top view"
The transpolar (blue) and circumpolar (red) Randers geodesics starting from $(\phi_0, \theta_0) = (0, \frac{\pi}{2})$ in the presence of the rotational perturbation, with $c: = \frac{5}{7}$, the increments $\Delta \varphi_0 = \frac{\pi}{4}$, $t\leq50$. Right: "top" view
The $F$-isochrones in the presence of the perturbing infinitesimal rotation, with $c: = \frac{5}{7}$ for $t = 1$ (blue), $t = 2$ (red), $t = 3$ (purple), $t = 4$ (magenta) and the starting point in $(\phi_0, \theta_0): = (0, \frac{\pi}{2})$
The $F$-isochrones on the spheroid $\Sigma^2$ under the perturbing infinitesimal rotation (7), with $c: = \frac{5}{7}$, $t = \left\{1\ \text{(blue)}, 2\ \text{(red)}, 3 \ \text{(purple)}, 4\ \text{(magenta)}\right\}$ and the starting point $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$. Right: "top" view
Comparing the solutions $x(t)$ - blue, $y(t)$ - red, $z(t)$ - black in the absence (dashed) and the presence (solid) of the wind (7), with $\Delta \varphi_0 = \frac{\pi}{8}$ and the starting point $(1, 0, 0)\in\mathbb{R}^3$; $t\leq3$
The comparison of the perturbed (red) and unperturbed (blue) time-efficient paths starting from $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$, with $\Delta \varphi_0 = \frac{\pi}{4}$, $t\leq1$ (left) and $\Delta \varphi_0 = \frac{\pi}{8}$, $t\leq3$ (middle and "top" view on the right)
The corresponding background $h$-Riemannian (blue), new $\alpha$-Riemannian (green) and $F$-Randers (red) geodesics starting from $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$, with $\Delta \varphi_0 = \frac{\pi}{4}$, $t\leq1$ (left) and with $\Delta \varphi_0 = \frac{\pi}{8}$, $t\leq3$ (middle: "side" view and right: "top" view)
The initial resulting speed $|{\bf{v}}_0|_h$ (black) as the function of the initial control angle $\varphi_0\in[0, 2\pi )$
The linear (on the left) and angular speeds (on the right) as the functions of time, in the absence (dashed) and in the presence (solid) of the perturbation (7); the resulting linear speed is shown in black; $t\leq7$
The polar plot of the solutions $\phi(t)$ (blue), $\theta(t)$ (red) in the absence (dashed) and presence (solid) of the perturbation (7); $t\leq20$
The distance (Euclidean) between the "Riemannian ship" and "Finslerian ship", with $t\leq 15$ (left) and $t\leq 50$ (right). The red horizontal line indicates collision and the green one - maximum distance, so the ships are positioned in the antipodal points of the spheroid's equator. The time of the first collision is $t_{col_1} = \frac{14\pi}{5}\approx8.8$
The first collision (also, the seventh intersection) of the corresponding time-minimal trajectories, i.e., the background Riemannian (blue) and the Randers preserving the optimal control (red); $t\leq\frac{14\pi}{5}\approx8.8$
The first intersection (no collision) of the Riemannian (blue) and Randers (red) geodesics coming from the starting point in $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$; with $t\leq1$ (solid), $t\leq 1.66$ (dashed). Right: "top" view
The spherical coordinates $\phi$ (blue), $\theta$ (red) of the corresponding Riemannian (dashed, $t\leq1$) and Randers (solid, $t\leq1.66$) geodesics coming from the starting point in $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$ till the first intersection (no collision) in the Cartesian (left) and the polar plot (right; time is expressed by length of the radius). The azimuth (longitude) of the first intersection $\phi\approx 45^\circ$ is marked by the black line
The Riemannian background geodesic of the ellipsoid $\Sigma^2$ departing from $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$ and its planar $xy$-projection; $t\leq25$
The background Riemannian geodesic (blue) versus the corresponding Randers geodesic (red), $t\leq7$, and their $xy$-projection (right), $t\leq20$
Comparing the corresponding geodesics in the absence (blue, $h$-Riemannian) and in the presence (red, $F$-Randers) of the perturbing vector field ($7$), with $c: = \frac{5}{7}$. Right: "top" view; $t\leq25$
The Cartesian solutions in the absence (dashed) and presence (solid) of the applied rotational perturbation (7) in the base $(x, y, z)$ (left) and the corresponding polar plot of the spherical solutions in the base $(\phi, \theta)$ (right); $t\leq7$
The Randers geodesic starting from $(0, \frac{\pi}{2})$ under the rotational perturbation (7), with $c: = \frac{5}{7}$, $t\leq25$, and its $xy$-projection, $t\leq20$
The parametric plots of the solutions $\phi, \theta$ (blue, $t\leq7$, left), their first derivatives (black, $t\leq3$, middle) and second derivatives (right, $t\leq5.35$, overlapped), in the absence (dashed) and presence (solid) of the rotational wind ($7$)
The resulting time-optimal steering angle $\Phi(t)$ ("course over ground") without (dashed blue) and with (solid red) the wind (7) in the Cartesian plot (left) and the corresponding polar plot (right); $t\leq7$
The drift angle $\Psi(t)$ (dashed blue), the optimal control $\varphi(t)$ (black) and the optimal resulting angle ("course over ground") $\Phi(t)$ (red) in the presence of the perturbation (7); $t\leq7$
The first collision (also, the first intersection) in $(\phi, \theta)\approx(45^\circ, 128^\circ)$ of the time-minimal trajectories generated from the same Riemannian geodesic (blue), i.e. the Randers geodesic with the preserved optimal control (red) and with the supplementary optimal control (black). On the right, "top view"; $t\leq3.3$
The first collision (also, the first intersection) in $(\phi, \theta)\approx(138^\circ, 53^\circ)$ of the Riemannian geodesic (blue) and the Randers geodesic with the supplementary optimal control (black). The corresponding Randers geodesic preserving the optimal control is presented in red. Right: "top" view; $t\leq2.06$
Left: the Riemannian geodesic (blue) and its two generated Randers geodesics: with the preserved optimal control (red, "Randers_1") and the supplementary optimal control (black, "Randers_2"). Right: the corresponding distances (Euclidean) between the ships: "Riemannian-Randers_1" (purple), "Riemannian-Randers_2" (dashed black) and "Randers_1-Randers_2" (blue); $t\leq 15$. The red horizontal line indicates collision and the green one the maximum distance, i.e., the ships are located in the antipodal points of the spheroid's equator
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