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In light of the rapid expansion of civil aviation, addressing the delays and congestion phenomena in the vicinity of metroplex caused by the imbalance between air traffic flow and capacity is crucial. This paper first proposes a bi-level…
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In the vision of urban air mobility, air transport systems serve the demands of urban communities by routing flight traffic in networks formed by vertiports and flight corridors. We develop a routing algorithm to ensure that the air traffic…
A novel wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS) laser tuning parameters and concentration retrieval technique based on the variable-radius-search artificial bee colony(VRS-ABC) algorithm is proposed. The technique imitates the foraging…