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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining immense attention due to their potential to revolutionize various businesses and industries. However, the adoption of UAV-assisted applications will strongly rely on the provision of reliable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ruba Alkadi , Abdulhadi Shoufan

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a promising solution to alleviate urban congestion and transportation challenges. Nevertheless, the noise generated by eVTOL aircrafts poses a significant barrier to public acceptance and regulatory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Jaejeong Park , Mahmoud Elfar , Cody Fleming , Yasser Shoukry

Highly populated cities face several challenges, one of them being the intense traffic congestion. In recent years, the concept of Urban Air Mobility has been put forward by large companies and organizations as a way to address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Emmanouil S. Rigas , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas

This paper proposes a physics-inspired solution for low altitude Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) in urban areas. We decompose UTM into spatial and temporal planning problems. For the spatial planning problem, we use…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Hamid Emadi , Ella Atkins , Hossein Rastgoftar

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) represents an evolution of the air transportation system by introducing low-altitude, potentially high-traffic environments. AAM operations will be enabled by both new aircraft, as well as new safety- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Haochen Wu , Lesley A. Weitz , Jeffrey M. Henderson , Max Z. Li

With the increasing development of intelligent transportation systems and advancements in aviation technology, the concept of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is gaining attention. This study aims to improve operational safety and service…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Jin Zhang , Xiaoran Qin , Ming Zhang

In Urban Air Mobility (UAM) networks, takeoff and landing sites, called vertiports, are likely to experience intermittent closures due to, e.g., adverse weather. To ensure safety, all in-flight Urban Air Vehicles (UAVs) in a UAM network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Qinshuang Wei , Gustav Nilsson , Samuel Coogan

Urban air mobility (UAM) is an emerging concept in short-range aviation transportation, where the aircraft will take off, land, and charge their batteries at a set of vertistops, and travel only through a set of flight corridors connecting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Qinshuang Wei , Yue Yu , Ufuk Topcu

The number of daily small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) operations in uncontrolled low altitude airspace is expected to reach into the millions. UAS Traffic Management (UTM) is an emerging concept aiming at the safe and efficient…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Ziyi Zhao , Chen Luo , Jin Zhao , Qinru Qiu , M. Cenk Gursoy , Carlos Caicedo , Franco Basti

In this paper, we address the issue of congestion in future Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) traffic system in uncertain weather. We treat the traffic of UAVs as fluid queues, and introduce models for traffic dynamics at three basic traffic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jiazhen Zhou , Li Jin , Dengfeng Sun

A significant challenge in estimating operational feasibility of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) missions lies in understanding how choices in design impact the performance of a complex system-of-systems. This work examines the ability of the UAM…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Sheng Li , Maxim Egorov , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Pre-departure flight plan scheduling for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and cargo delivery drones will require on-demand scheduling of large numbers of aircraft. We examine the scalability of an algorithm known as FastMDP which was shown to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Joshua R Bertram , Peng Wei , Joseph Zambreno

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) envisions the widespread use of small aerial vehicles to transform transportation in dense urban environments. However, UAM faces critical operational challenges, particularly the balance between minimizing noise…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Surya Murthy , Zhenyu Gao , John-Paul Clarke , Ufuk Topcu

Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicles are gaining traction in both the delivery drone market and passenger transportation, driving the development of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) systems. UAM seeks to alleviate road congestion in dense…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ravi Raj Saxena , T. V. Prabhakar , Joy Kuri , Manogna Yadav

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

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) systems are rapidly emerging as promising solutions to alleviate urban congestion, with path planning becoming a key focus area. Unlike ground transportation, UAM trajectory planning has to prioritize communication…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yuejiao Xie , Maonan Wang , Di Zhou , Man-On Pun , Zhu Han

This paper presents a real-time trajectory planning framework for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) that is both safe and scalable. The proposed framework employs a decentralized, free-flight concept of operation in which each aircraft independently…

It has been considered that urban air mobility (UAM), also known as drone-taxi or electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), will play a key role in future transportation. By putting UAM into practical future transportation, several…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Chanyoung Park , Soohyun Park , Gyu Seon Kim , Soyi Jung , Jae-Hyun Kim , Joongheon Kim

As urban logistics demand continues to grow, UAV delivery has become a key solution to improve delivery efficiency, reduce traffic congestion, and lower logistics costs. However, to fully leverage the potential of UAV delivery networks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Han Liu , Tian Liu , Kai Huang

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