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Main Authors: Liang, Hanbing, Liu, Fujun
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01327
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author Liang, Hanbing
Liu, Fujun
author_facet Liang, Hanbing
Liu, Fujun
contents Macroscopic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) traffic organization in three-dimensional airspace faces significant challenges from static wind fields and complex obstacles. A critical difficulty lies in simultaneously capturing the strong anisotropy induced by wind while strictly preserving transport consistency and boundary semantics, which are often compromised in standard physics-informed learning approaches. To resolve this, we propose a constraint-preserving hybrid solver that integrates a physics-informed neural network for the anisotropic Eikonal value problem with a conservative finite-volume method for steady density transport. These components are coupled through an outer Picard iteration with under-relaxation, where the target condition is hard-encoded and strictly conservative no-flux boundaries are enforced during the transport step. We evaluate the framework on reproducible homing and point-to-point scenarios, effectively capturing value slices, induced-motion patterns, and steady density structures such as bands and bottlenecks. Ultimately, our perspective emphasizes the value of a reproducible computational framework supported by transparent empirical diagnostics to enable the traceable assessment of macroscopic traffic phenomena.
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spellingShingle Macroscopic transport patterns of UAV traffic in 3D anisotropic wind fields: A constraint-preserving hybrid PINN-FVM approach
Liang, Hanbing
Liu, Fujun
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Machine Learning
Macroscopic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) traffic organization in three-dimensional airspace faces significant challenges from static wind fields and complex obstacles. A critical difficulty lies in simultaneously capturing the strong anisotropy induced by wind while strictly preserving transport consistency and boundary semantics, which are often compromised in standard physics-informed learning approaches. To resolve this, we propose a constraint-preserving hybrid solver that integrates a physics-informed neural network for the anisotropic Eikonal value problem with a conservative finite-volume method for steady density transport. These components are coupled through an outer Picard iteration with under-relaxation, where the target condition is hard-encoded and strictly conservative no-flux boundaries are enforced during the transport step. We evaluate the framework on reproducible homing and point-to-point scenarios, effectively capturing value slices, induced-motion patterns, and steady density structures such as bands and bottlenecks. Ultimately, our perspective emphasizes the value of a reproducible computational framework supported by transparent empirical diagnostics to enable the traceable assessment of macroscopic traffic phenomena.
title Macroscopic transport patterns of UAV traffic in 3D anisotropic wind fields: A constraint-preserving hybrid PINN-FVM approach
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01327