Efficiency and Fairness in Unmanned Air Traffic Flow Management

Chin, Christopher; Gopalakrishnan, Karthik; Egorov, Maxim; Evans, Antony; Balakrishnan, Hamsa

doi:10.1109/tits.2020.3048356

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“…As the demand for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) operations increases, UAS Traffic Flow Management (UTFM) initiatives are needed to mitigate congestion, and to ensure safety and efficiency (Chin et al, 2021). It should be noted that drones can be used by individuals to transport prohibited goods or as weapons, thereby posing a threat to security.…”

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The global drone market: main development trends

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Research background: Many countries of the world announced increasing the use of drones for civil and military purposes. An important feature of the drone market is that it is an “ecosystem”“, which includes software developers, integrators, component manufacturers, etc. By 2025, the capacity of the global unmanned aerial vehicle market will grow by 3 times. Purpose of the article: The aim of the study is to identify current trends in the development of the global market of unmanned aerial vehicles for commercial use. Methods: A significant part of the necessary statistical data is closed for public access, due to the fact that most of the UAVs produced are part of the military-industrial complex or “dual-use” goods. Only 23.6% of all UAVs produced can be classified as civilian or commercial products. Market development trends using economic statistic methods were determined based on the data of the reports “The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in International Trade and their Regulation”, Drone Industry Insights, the analytical agency Mordor Intelligence, “Global Drone Regulations Database”. Findings & Value added: The USA, China and France are the leaders in the production of commercial and consumer drones. The rating of drone manufacturers is led by: DJI (China), SenseFly / Parrot SA (France), Yuneec (China), 3D Robotics (USA). The largest purchases are made by the USA, China, Russia, Great Britain, Australia, France, Saudi Arabia, India and South Korea. Significant growth in the use of drones is expected in medicine, logistics and delivery.

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“…The design choices in a multi-operator UAM ecosystem would be driven by both the system managing coordination between operators, such as a UTM, the resource allocation policies for resources that are shared, and the fleet management policies each operator chooses to implement. Such design choices have been shown to have significant impact on the efficiency and the fairness of the ecosystem as a whole [12,37], and must be better understood in the context of the broader UAM ecosystem.…”

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Analysis of Fleet Management and Infrastructure Constraints in On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Operations

Sheng

Egorov

Kochenderfer

2020

Aiaa Aviation 2020 Forum

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A significant challenge in estimating operational feasibility of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) missions lies in understanding how choices in design impact the performance of a complex system-of-systems. This work examines the ability of the UAM ecosystem and the operations within it to meet a variety of demand profiles that may emerge in the coming years. We perform a set of simulation driven feasibility and scalability analyses based on UAM operational models with the goal of estimating capacity and throughput for a given set of parameters that represent an operational UAM ecosystem. UAM ecosystem design guidelines, vehicle constraints, and effective operational policies can be drawn from our analysis. Results show that, while critical for enabling UAM, the performance of the UAM ecosystem is robust to variations in ground infrastructure and fleet design decisions, while being sensitive to decisions for fleet and traffic management policies. We show that so long as the ecosystem design parameters for ground infrastructure and fleet design fall within a sensible range, the performance of the UAM ecosystem is affected by the policies used to manage the UAM traffic.

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“…All stakeholders agree that a UTM system should be fair. However, there is no single agreed upon notion of fairness (Chin et al 2020;Evans, Egorov, and Munn 2020).…”

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Market Design for Drone Traffic Management

Seuken

Friedrich

Dierks

2022

AAAI

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The rapid development of drone technology is leading to more and more use cases being proposed. In response, regulators are drawing up drone traffic management frameworks. However, to design solutions that are efficient, fair, simple, non-manipulable, and scalable, we need market design and AI expertise. To this end, we introduce the drone traffic management problem as a new research challenge to the market design and AI communities. We present five design desiderata that we have derived from our interviews with stakeholders from the regulatory side as well as from public and private enterprises. Finally, we provide an overview of the solution space to point out possible directions for future research.

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Efficiency and Fairness in Unmanned Air Traffic Flow Management

Cited by 44 publications

References 19 publications

The global drone market: main development trends

The global drone market: main development trends

Analysis of Fleet Management and Infrastructure Constraints in On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Operations

Market Design for Drone Traffic Management

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