Abstract
The US National Airspace System is currently operating at a level close to its maximum potential. The limitation comes from the workload demand on the air traffic controllers. Currently, the air traffic flow management is based on the flight path requests by the airline operators, whereas the minimum separation assurance between flights is handled strategically by air traffic control personnel. In this paper, we propose a scalable framework that allows path planning for a large number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) taking into account the deadline and weather constraints. Our proposed solution has a polynomial-time computational complexity that is also verified by measuring the runtime for typical workloads. We further demonstrate that the proposed framework is able to route 80% of the workloads while not exceeding the sector capacity constraints, even under dynamic weather conditions. Due to low computational complexity, our framework is suitable for a fleet of UAVs where decentralizing the routing process limits the workload demand on the air traffic personnel.
Recommended Citation
S. Vaidhun et al., "Dynamic Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles under Deadline and Sector Capacity Constraints," IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 839 - 851, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Aug 2022.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/TETCI.2021.3122743
Department(s)
Computer Science
Keywords and Phrases
Air traffic; conflict avoidance; routing; simulation; unmanned aircraft
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
2471-285X
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Aug 2022
Comments
National Science Foundation, Grant CCF-1725755