The FAA and NASA are developing an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) capability defining an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) architecture. The combined scale and density of the expected air traffic, as well as the algorithmic complexity of maintaining safe separation, are driving a consensus that a structured airspace will eventually be required. Against this background, a lane-based airspace structure is proposed here whose motivation is to reduce the computational complexity of strategic deconfliction by providing UAS agents with a set of pre-defined airway corridors called lanes. To achieve complexity reduction, an airspace is defined that is composed of a directed graph where every node has either input or output degree equal to one, and flight plans consist of a scheduled sequence of lane traversals. The major results are: (1) the creation and layout of lane structures, (2) an efficient lane-based strategic deconfliction scheduling algorithm, (3) lane-network performance analysis tools, and (4) a tactical deconfliction protocol to handle dynamic contingencies (e.g., failure to follow the nominal flight plan). In conclusion, this approach provides efficient scheduling of safe flight paths, straightforward analysis of stream properties of the transportation system, an effective contingency handling protocol, and scalability to thousands of flights over urban areas.
Lane-Based Large-Scale UAS Traffic Management
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 23 , 10 ; 18835-18844
2022-10-01
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Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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