Control Protocol Design and Analysis for Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management

TL;DR

This paper introduces a control protocol for unmanned aircraft system traffic management that enhances safety and efficiency, reduces monitoring and control efforts, and ensures individual sUAS behavior compliance through mathematical proofs and simulations.

Contribution

It presents a novel control protocol design and analysis method for managing large-scale sUAS traffic safely and efficiently.

Findings

Reduces monitoring and control efforts for authorities and operators.

Ensures individual sUAS behavior follows restrictions.

Mathematical proofs validate the protocol's effectiveness.

Abstract

Due to the rapid development technologies for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), the supply and demand market for sUAS is expanding globally. With the great number of sUAS ready to fly in civilian airspace, an sUAS aircraft traffic management system that can guarantee the safe and efficient operation of sUAS is still at absence. In this paper, we propose a control protocol design and analysis method for sUAS traffic management (UTM) which can safely manage a large number of sUAS. The benefits of our approach are two folds: at the top level, the effort for monitoring sUAS traffic (authorities) and control/planning for each sUAS (operator/pilot) are both greatly reduced under our framework; and at the low level, the behavior of individual sUAS is guaranteed to follow the restrictions. Mathematical proofs and numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the proposed method.