Given the goal of developing the capability of safely flying thousands of UAS mission in an urban area, it is essential to provide a framework for planning flights in a coordinated way. The FAA and NASA have been working on this, and this chapter describes their approach. The core problem is to safely schedule flights so they never get too close to one another. The theoretical background for posing this problem technically and for solving it analytically is presented. In addition, the computational cost of these methods is discussed, as well as how they scale with the problem size. Of course, there are other practical issues to be considered as well; for example, NASA’s traffic management protocol requires the sharing of flight trajectory details between operators when negotiating airspace; thus, it is essential to consider alternatives that allow dense operations while maintaining data privacy. It is also important for the ultimate traffic management system to deal fairly with all users and not be weighted toward participants with large-scale resources.
Introduction to UAS Traffic Management
Unmanned Syst. Tech.
2022-02-26
8 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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