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Main Author: Vesel, Alex
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14832
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author Vesel, Alex
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contents Future urban air mobility systems are expected to be operated by rideshare companies as fleets, which will require fully autonomous air traffic control systems and an order of magnitude increase in airspace capacity. Such a system must not only be safe, but also highly responsive to customer demand. This paper proposes the air traffic network problem (ATNP), which models the optimization problem of future cooperative air taxi networks. We propose a three-phase decision making model that efficiently assigns vehicles to passengers, determines flight levels to reduce collision risk, and resolves aircraft conflicts by selectively applying Monte Carlo tree search. We develop a simulator for the ATNP and show that our approach has increased safety and reduced passenger waiting time compared to greedy and first-dispatch protocols over potential vertiport layouts across the Bay Area and New York City.
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spellingShingle Autonomous Decision Making for Air Taxi Networks
Vesel, Alex
Multiagent Systems
Future urban air mobility systems are expected to be operated by rideshare companies as fleets, which will require fully autonomous air traffic control systems and an order of magnitude increase in airspace capacity. Such a system must not only be safe, but also highly responsive to customer demand. This paper proposes the air traffic network problem (ATNP), which models the optimization problem of future cooperative air taxi networks. We propose a three-phase decision making model that efficiently assigns vehicles to passengers, determines flight levels to reduce collision risk, and resolves aircraft conflicts by selectively applying Monte Carlo tree search. We develop a simulator for the ATNP and show that our approach has increased safety and reduced passenger waiting time compared to greedy and first-dispatch protocols over potential vertiport layouts across the Bay Area and New York City.
title Autonomous Decision Making for Air Taxi Networks
topic Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14832