Stability of intersecting aircraft flows using heading-change maneuvers for conflict avoidance

Zhi Hong Mao; David Dugail; Eric Feron; Karl Bilimoria

doi:10.1109/TITS.2005.858789

Stability of intersecting aircraft flows using heading-change maneuvers for conflict avoidance

Zhi Hong Mao, David Dugail, Eric Feron, Karl Bilimoria

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This paper analyzes two intersecting flows of aircraft that must avoid each other, utilizing maneuvers modeled by instantaneous heading changes. Sufficient conditions are derived for stable conflict avoidance, whereby one aircraft's conflict-avoidance action does not generate cascaded diverging conflict-avoidance behavior (known as the domino effect) in neighboring aircraft. The mathematics involved with the heading-change model are considerably more complex than those using the simpler offset-maneuver models utilized in the previous work. However, this additional effort is largely compensated by the improved realism of the maneuver model, as well as new insights in the inherent robustness of conflict-avoidance maneuver schemes based on heading changes against specified separation standards. The analytical results are compared with simulations. © 2005 IEEE.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	357-369
Number of pages	13
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2005.858789 https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2002.1024905
State	Published - Dec 1 2005
Externally published	Yes

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