Conflict resolution for air traffic management: a study in multiagent hybrid systems

Author

Tomlin, Claire ; Pappas, George J. ; Sastry, Shankar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

43

Issue

4

fYear

1998

fDate

4/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

509

Lastpage

521

Abstract

Air traffic management (ATM) of the future allows for the possibility of free flight, in which aircraft choose their own optimal routes, altitudes, and velocities. The safe resolution of trajectory conflicts between aircraft is necessary to the success of such a distributed control system. In this paper, we present a method to synthesize provably safe conflict resolution manoeuvres. The method models the aircraft and the manoeuvre as a hybrid control system and calculates the maximal set of safe initial conditions for each aircraft so that separation is assured in the presence of uncertainties in the actions of the other aircraft. Examples of manoeuvres using both speed and heading changes are worked out in detail

Keywords

aerodynamics; air traffic control; aircraft control; cooperative systems; distributed control; ATC; air traffic management; aircraft control; distributed control system; multiagent hybrid systems; trajectory conflict resolution; verification; Aerospace control; Air traffic control; Aircraft navigation; Communication system control; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Global Positioning System; Military computing; Protection; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9286

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/9.664154

Filename

664154