[PDF][PDF] Robust airborne collision avoidance through dynamic programming

MJ Kochenderfer, JP Chryssanthacopoulos - Massachusetts Institute of …, 2011 - ll.mit.edu
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), currently
mandated on all large transport aircraft, has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of …

3D path planning and real-time collision resolution of multirotor drone operations in complex urban low-altitude airspace

N Zhang, M Zhang, KH Low - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drones have been greatly developed to facilitate the progress of various industries. The safe
operation of drones in the urban airspace is critical to ensure a reliable and high-efficient …

ACAS sXu: Robust decentralized detect and avoid for small unmanned aircraft systems

LE Alvarez, I Jessen, MP Owen… - 2019 IEEE/AIAA 38th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Demand for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) continues to increase in diversity and
volume, however applications are currently limited by regulatory requirements for visual …

A 3D collision avoidance strategy for UAVs in a non-cooperative environment

X Yang, LM Alvarez, T Bruggemann - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2013 - Springer
This paper presents a feasible 3D collision avoidance approach for fixed-wing unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). The proposed strategy aims to achieve the desired relative bearing …

Distributed computational guidance for high-density urban air mobility with cooperative and non-cooperative collision avoidance

J Bertram, P Wei - AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) will result in numerous aircraft which will need to respond to a
dynamically changing airspace to safely reach their destinations. We use a highly efficient …

Accounting for state uncertainty in collision avoidance

JP Chryssanthacopoulos… - Journal of Guidance …, 2011 - arc.aiaa.org
An important consideration in the development of aircraft collision avoidance systems is how
to account for state uncertainty due to sensor limitations and noise. However, many collision …

Multi-rotor aircraft collision avoidance using partially observable Markov decision processes

ER Mueller, M Kochenderfer - AIAA Modeling and Simulation …, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents an extension to the ACAS X collision avoidance algorithm to multirotor
aircraft capable of using speed changes to avoid close encounters with neighboring aircraft …

A decision-theoretic approach to developing robust collision avoidance logic

MJ Kochenderfer… - 13th International IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
All large transport aircraft are required to be equipped with a collision avoidance system that
instructs pilots how to maneuver to avoid collision with other aircraft. The uncertainty in the …

Game theoretic modeling of pilot behavior during mid-air encounters

R Lee, D Wolpert - Decision Making with Imperfect Decision Makers, 2012 - Springer
We show how to combine Bayes nets and game theory to predict the behavior of hybrid
systems involving both humans and automated components. We call this novel framework …

Optimized and trusted collision avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicles using approximate dynamic programming

ZN Sunberg, MJ Kochenderfer… - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safely integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into civil airspace is contingent upon
development of a trustworthy collision avoidance system. This paper proposes an approach …