Unmanned Aircraft Collision Avoidance System Using Cooperative Agent-Based Negotiation Approach

摘要

An autonomous unmanned aircraft requires the collision avoidance capability to automatically sense and avoid conflicts, that is, to meet safety and flexibility issues in an environment of increasing air traffic densities. In this paper, the problem of solving conflicts among unmanned aircraft agents, that are assumed to fly in same altitude and instances, is considered. This paper presents a new functional architecture for unmanned aircraft collision avoidance system with an approach utilized for deciding the collision criteria upon flight plan sharing, and cooperatively avoids potential conflict through multi-agent peer to peer aircraft negotiation and predefined maneuvering in heading and speed changes. The designed collision avoidance system will allow each aircraft to negotiate with each other to determie a safe and acceptable solution when potential conflict is detected.