CS229 Project Report - Aircraft Collision Avoidance

Existing Air Traffic Control (ATC) procedures rely completely on human supervision and control. However, with the burgeoning traffic demands, it has become necessary to find options for automated (and possibly decentralized) traffic control. In particular, the problem of aircraft collision avoidance is of great interest. However, current approaches, [1] [2], are either computationally intensive, or limited to a two-aircraft scenario. We draw inspiration from the two-aircraft case and the trajectories generated by Gokhan et al and propose a relatively simple rule-based scheme for collision avoidance. We call this a traffic circle-based method for 2-D collision avoidance.