Scalable multi-agent computational guidance with separation assurance for autonomous urban air mobility

X Yang, P Wei - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles are becoming promising for on-demand air
transportation in urban air mobility (UAM). However, successfully bringing such vehicles and …

Autonomous free flight operations in urban air mobility with computational guidance and collision avoidance

X Yang, P Wei - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent transportation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to provide efficient, high-
speed, on-demand air transportation within a metropolitan area is a topic of increasing …

System performance characteristics of centralized and decentralized air traffic separation strategies

J Krozel, M Peters, KD Bilimoria, C Lee… - Air Traffic Control …, 2001 - arc.aiaa.org
This work investigates the system performance characteristics of centralized and
decentralized strategies for air traffic separation. A centralized separation strategy and two …

[PDF][PDF] Autonomous on-demand free flight operations in urban air mobility using Monte Carlo tree search

X Yang, P Wei - International Conference on Research in Air …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft for personal air transportation or on-demand air
taxi will bring fundamental changes to city infrastructures and daily commutes. NASA, Uber …

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 …

Conceptual Framework for Dynamic Optimal Airspace Configuration for Urban Air Mobility

TA Hearn, MT Kotwicz Herniczek… - Journal of Air …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
In this work, a framework for optimizing the configuration of service areas in airspace into
disparate partitions is demonstrated in the context of urban air mobility (UAM) operations …

Ontological reasoning for consistency in the design of cyber-physical systems

K Vanherpen, J Denil, I David… - … Workshop on Cyber …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) involves a multitude of stakeholders. Each of
these stakeholders has a specific view on the system under design. Unfortunately, when …

Multi-agent autonomous on-demand free flight operations in urban air mobility

X Yang, L Deng, P Wei - AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
In urban air mobility (UAM), flying with electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft
will bring fundamental changes to city infrastructures and daily commutes. In order to enable …

Enhancing air traffic control: A transparent deep reinforcement learning framework for autonomous conflict resolution

L Wang, H Yang, Y Lin, S Yin, Y Wu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Rising traffic demands, advancements in automation, and communication breakthroughs are
opening new design frontiers for future air traffic controllers (ATCs). This article introduces a …

The magnitude of detours faced by commercial flights: A global assessment

F Dobruszkes, D Peeters - Journal of Transport Geography, 2019 - Elsevier
Scholars and experts in transportation, economics, geography and environmental studies
have largely assumed the distance flown by commercial planes represents the shortest …