26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-8.7.3

REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF A DISTRIBUTED CONFLICT RESOLUTION ALGORITHM

G. T. Spence, D. J. Allerton, R. Baumeister*, R. Estkowski*
Univ. of Sheffield, UK; *The Boeing Company, USA

Keywords: aircraft, separation, resolution, distributed, automated

This paper describes a simulation study of conflict resolution in air traffic management where aircraft regularly broadcast their state and the computation of conflict resolution is distributed among the aircraft. The architecture of the simulator and the real-time conflict resolution algorithms are described, together with results from extensive simulation studies.

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