Flight safety measurements of UAVs in congested airspace

Airborne Seeker Application in Three Dimensional Formation Flight of UAVs

This paper deals with the leader-follower formation control problem while communication constraint in data transmitting is considered. From a practical point of view, we study the case in which unmanned vehicles are subject to the limited sensing, and communication is of a particular interest. A three-dimensional formation flight of multi-unmanned aerial vehicles with leader-follower configurat...

Fast Formation of Swarm of UAVs in Congested Urban Environment

As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become more readily available and reduce in cost, using multiple UAVs simultaneously to accomplish a task becomes increasingly attractive. Once swarms of UAVs share the same workspace (operational environment) it is necessary to have a means to rapidly adopt an optimal collision-free formation in the workspace. A popular approach for formation of an optimal sw...

Draft Paper: An Airspace Planning Model for Selecting Flight-Plans Under Workload, Safety, and Equity Considerations

In this paper, we present an Airspace Planning Model (APM) that has been developed for use under future airspace scenarios. Given a set of flights for a particular time horizon, along with (possibly several) alternative flight-plans for each flight that are based on delays and diversions due to special-use airspace (SUA) restrictions or weather considerations, this model prescribes a set of fli...

Minimum - Energy Flight Paths for Uavs Using

An Airspace Planning Model for Selecting Flight-plans Under Workload, Safety, and Equity Considerations

Hanif D. Sherali • J. Cole Smith • Antonio A. Trani Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (0118), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Charles Edward Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (0105), Virginia Polytechnic Inst...