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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

With increasing urban population, there is global interest in Urban Air Mobility (UAM), where hundreds of autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) execute missions in the airspace above cities. Unlike traditional human-in-the-loop air…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Alëna Rodionova , Yash Vardhan Pant , Kuk Jang , Houssam Abbas , Rahul Mangharam

Urban air mobility (UAM), a transformative concept for the transport of passengers and cargo, faces several integration challenges in complex urban environments. Community acceptance of aircraft noise is among the most noticeable of these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Zhenyu Gao , Yue Yu , Qinshuang Wei , Ufuk Topcu , John-Paul Clarke

Urban air mobility (UAM) has attracted the attention of aircraft manufacturers, air navigation service providers and governments in recent years. Preventing the conflict among urban aircraft is crucial to UAM traffic safety, which is a key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Wei Dai , Bizhao Pang , Kin Huat Low

Traffic congestion and violations pose significant challenges for urban mobility and road safety. Traditional traffic monitoring systems, such as fixed cameras and sensor-based methods, are often constrained by limited coverage, low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ali Khanpour , Tianyi Wang , Afra Vahidi-Shams , Wim Ectors , Farzam Nakhaie , Amirhossein Taheri , Christian Claudel

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

Accurate inference of fine-grained traffic flow from coarse-grained one is an emerging yet crucial problem, which can help greatly reduce the number of the required traffic monitoring sensors for cost savings. In this work, we notice that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lingbo Liu , Mengmeng Liu , Guanbin Li , Ziyi Wu , Junfan Lin , Liang Lin

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are expected to reshape traffic flow dynamics and present new challenges and opportunities for traffic flow modeling. While numerous studies have proposed optimal modeling and control strategies for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Saeed Mohammadian , Zuduo Zheng , Md. Mazharul Haque , Ashish Bhaskar

In this work, we introduce a microscopic traffic flow model called Scalar Capacity Model (SCM) which can be used to study the formation of traffic on an airway link for autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) as well as for the ground…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Mirmojtaba Gharibi , Raouf Boutaba , Steven L. Waslander

Significant challenges are posed by simulation and testing in the field of low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) traffic due to the high costs associated with large-scale UAV testing and the complexity of establishing low-altitude…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zonghan Li , Tianwen Tao , Rao Fu , Liang Wang , Dongyuan Zhang , Quan Quan

There is a rapid growth of applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in traffic management, such as traffic surveillance, monitoring, and incident detection. However, the existing literature lacks solutions to real-time incident…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hualong Tang , Joseph Post , Achilleas Kourtellis , Brian Porter , Yu Zhang

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

Automated Urban Air Mobility (UAM) can improve passenger transportation and reduce congestion, but its success depends on passenger trust. While initial research addresses passengers' information needs, questions remain about how to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Luca-Maxim Meinhardt , Clara Schramm , Pascal Jansen , Mark Colley , Enrico Rukzio

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is an emerging transportation system that will enable the safe and efficient low altitude operations and applications of unmanned aircraft (e.g., passenger transportation and cargo delivery) in the national…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Esrat F. Dulia , Mir S. Sabuj , Syed A. M. Shihab

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionize daily transportation, offering rapid and efficient aerial mobility services. Take-off and merging phases are critical for air corridor operations, requiring the coordination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Yingqi Liu , Tianlu Pan , Jingjun Tan , Renxin Zhong , Can Chen

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

Ensuring safe separation between aircraft is a critical challenge in air traffic management, particularly in urban air mobility (UAM) environments where high traffic density and low altitudes require precise control. In these environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Surya Murthy , Tyler Ingebrand , Sophia Smith , Ufuk Topcu , Peng Wei , Natasha Neogi

For drones, as safety-critical systems, there is an increasing need for onboard detect & avoid (DAA) technology i) to see, sense or detect conflicting traffic or imminent non-cooperative threats due to their high mobility with multiple…

The number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continues to explode. Within the total spectrum of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is also on the way. Dense air traffic is getting ever closer to us. Current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Quan Quan , Mengxin Li

The advent of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) presents the scope for a transformative shift in the domain of urban transportation. However, its widespread adoption and economic viability depends in part on the ability to optimally schedule the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Prithvi Poddar , Steve Paul , Souma Chowdhury