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Decentralized air traffic management systems offer a scalable alternative to centralized control, but often assume high levels of cooperation. In practice, such assumptions frequently break down since airspace sectors operate independently…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Jaehan Im , Daniel Delahaye , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

We propose developing an integrated system to keep autonomous unmanned aircraft safely separated and behave as expected in conjunction with manned traffic. The main goal is to achieve safe manned-unmanned vehicle teaming to improve system…

This paper develops a novel physics-inspired traffic coordination approach and applies it to Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) traffic management. We extend available physics-inspired approaches previously applied to 1-D traffic flow on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella Atkins

The trend for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is growing with prospective air taxis, parcel deliverers, and medical and industrial services. Safe and efficient UAM operation relies on timely communication and reliable data exchange. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Timo Häckel , Luca von Roenn , Nemo Juchmann , Alexander Fay , Rinie Akkermans , Tim Tiedemann , Thomas C. Schmidt

Urban air mobility (UAM) is a transformative system that operates various small aerial vehicles in urban environments to reshape urban transportation. However, integrating UAM into existing urban environments presents a variety of complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Surya Murthy , John-Paul Clarke , Ufuk Topcu , Zhenyu Gao

This paper studies the traffic monitoring problem in a road network using a team of aerial robots. The problem is challenging due to two main reasons. First, the traffic events are stochastic, both temporally and spatially. Second, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Behzad Khamidehi , Elvino S. Sousa

In the UAM space, strategic deconfliction provides an all-essential layer to airspace automation by providing safe, pre-emptive deconfliction or assignment of airspace resources to airspace users pre-flight. Strategic deconfliction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Ellis L Thompson , Yan Xu , Peng Wei

Urban air mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionize transportation in metropolitan areas, providing a new mode of transportation that could alleviate congestion and improve accessibility. However, the integration of UAM into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xuan Jiang , Yuhan Tang , Junzhe Cao , Vishwanath Bulusu , Hao , Yang , Xin Peng , Yunhan Zheng , Jinhua Zhao , Raja Sengupta

Autonomous air traffic management (ATM) operations for urban air mobility (UAM) will necessitate the use of distributed protocols for decentralized coordination between aircraft. As UAM operations are time-critical, it will be imperative to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Saswata Paul , Stacy Patterson , Carlos Varela

Aerial cargo transport is anticipated to play a pivotal role in the distribution of goods within urban environments. The shift is propelled by the surge in e-commerce, the imperative to deliver essential supplies to isolated areas, and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Josue N. Rivera , Dengfeng Sun

We introduce a decentralized and online path planning technique for a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of weather disturbances. In our problem setting, the group of UAVs are required to collaboratively visit a set…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Wei Zhao , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

Existing UAS Traffic Management (UTM) frameworks designate preplanned flight paths to uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), enabling the UAS to deliver payloads. However, with increasing delivery demand between the source-destination pairs in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Sajid Ahamed Mohammed Abdul , Prathyush P Menon , Debasish Ghose

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging application of unmanned aerial vehicles that promises to reduce travel time and alleviate congestion in urban transportation systems. As drone density increases, UAM traffic is expected to experience…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hang Zhou , Yuhui Zhai , Shiyu Shen , Yanfeng Ouyang , Xiaowei Shi , Xiaopeng Li

We present an adaptive control scheme to enable the emergence of order within distributed, autonomous multi-agent systems. Past studies showed that under high-density conditions, order generated from traffic-following behavior reduces…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Anahita Jain , Husni Idris , John-Paul Clarke , Daniel Delahaye

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a transformative solution to alleviate urban congestion by utilizing low-altitude airspace, thereby reducing pressure on ground transportation networks. To enable truly efficient and seamless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Aoyu Pang , Maonan Wang , Zifan Sha , Wenwei Yue , Changle Li , Chung Shue Chen , Man-On Pun

We investigate a method to deal with congestion of sectors and delays in the tactical phase of air traffic flow and capacity management. It relies on temporal objectives given for every point of the flight plans and shared among the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Gaétan Marceau , Pierre Savéant , Marc Schoenauer

We introduce AAM-Gym, a research and development testbed for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). AAM has the potential to revolutionize travel by reducing ground traffic and emissions by leveraging new types of aircraft such as electric vertical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Marc Brittain , Luis E. Alvarez , Kara Breeden , Ian Jessen

Present air traffic complexity metrics are defined considering the interests of different management layers of ATM. These layers have different objectives which in practice compete to maximize their own goals, which leads to fragmented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ralvi Isufaj , Marsel Omeri , Miquel Angel Piera , Jaume Saez Valls , Christian Eduardo Verdonk Gallego

Urban air mobility (UAM), as envisioned by aviation professionals, will transport passengers and cargo at low altitudes within urban and suburban areas. To operate in urban environments, precise air traffic management, in particular the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Qinshuang Wei , Zhenyu Gao , John-Paul Clarke , Ufuk Topcu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are now becoming increasingly accessible to amateur and com-mercial users alike. Several types of airspace structures are proposed in recent research, which include several structured free flight concepts. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Rao Fu , Quan Quan , Mengxin Li , Kai-Yuan Cai