An Adaptive Agent-Based Aircraft Collision Resolution Method for Free Flight

In recent years, aircraft collision detection and resolution has been an active topic in the realm of free flight. This paper aims to describe a decentralized, multi-agent based method to the problem of aircraft collisions in free flight. In the proposed method, aircraft are modeled as autonomous agents, in which each agent within its vision domain locally detects and resolves collisions. Autonomous agents use a hybrid method a priority heuristic and a genetic algorithm to resolve collisions and subsequently reduce the flight time of aircraft. Applying the proposed method to some benchmark collision scenarios indicates its capability in dealing with different types of collision scenarios

Keywords:

Free Flight , Collision Resolution , Multi-Agent Systems , Priority Heuristic , Genetic Algorithm