Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) Communication for Collision Avoidance for Multi-Copters Flying in UTM -TCL4

NASAs UAS Traffic management (UTM) research initiative is aimed at identifying requirements for safe autonomous operations of UAS operating in dense urban environments. For complete autonomous operations vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications has been identified as an essential tool. In this paper we simulate a complete urban operations in an high fidelity simulation environment. We design a V2V communication protocol and all the vehicles participating communicate over this system. We show how V2V communication can be used for finding feasible, collision-free paths for multi agent systems. Different collision avoidance schemes are explored and an end to end simulation study shows the use of V2V communication for UTM TCL4 deployment

Real-Time Path Planning for Multi-copters flying in UTM -TCL4

NASA's UAS Traffic management (UTM) -TCL-4 focuses on safely enabling large scale small UAS oper- ations in low altitude airspace in dense urban regions. This paper presents an operational architecture of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle operating in TCL4. An on-line path planning scheme is proposed which can effectively plan for feasible paths in real time with TCL-4 constraints. An end to end system is designed and tested in high fidelity Reflection architecture which demonstrates the feasibility of the approach