Autonomous navigation for eVTOL: Review and future perspectives

H Wei, B Lou, Z Zhang, B Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey paper explores the emergent domain of electric vertical takeoff and landing
vehicles (eVTOLs), emphasizing the critical role of autonomous navigation capabilities …

Towards efficient airline disruption recovery with reinforcement learning

Y Ding, S Wandelt, G Wu, Y Xu, X Sun - Transportation Research Part E …, 2023 - Elsevier
Disruptions to airline schedules precipitate flight delays/cancellations and significant losses
for airline operations. The goal of the integrated airline recovery problem is to develop an …

[HTML][HTML] Tactical conflict resolution in urban airspace for unmanned aerial vehicles operations using attention-based deep reinforcement learning

M Zhang, C Yan, W Dai, X Xiang, KH Low - Green Energy and Intelligent …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained much attention from academic and industrial
areas due to the significant number of potential applications in urban airspace. A traffic …

Deep reinforcement learning in service of air traffic controllers to resolve tactical conflicts

G Papadopoulos, A Bastas, GA Vouros, I Crook… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Dense and complex air traffic requires higher levels of automation than those exhibited by
tactical conflict detection and resolution (CD&R) tools that air traffic controllers (ATCOs) use …

Comparison of performance between PMS and trombone arrival route topologies in terminal maneuvering area

W Liu, D Delahaye, FA Cetek, Q Zhao… - Journal of Air Transport …, 2024 - Elsevier
The contradiction between air traffic capacity and demand exerts congestion and delay,
resulting in airspace operating at or above its capacity. This paper proposes a performance …

A reinforcement learning approach for multi-fleet aircraft recovery under airline disruption

J Lee, K Lee, I Moon - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
An airline scheduler plans flight schedules with efficient resource utilization. However,
unpredictable airline disruptions, such as temporary closures of an airports, cause schedule …

Real-time 4D trajectory planning method for civil aircraft with high security in congested, stochastic, and dynamic airspace environment

J Zhou, H Zhang, Q Xue, Y Li - Expert Systems with Applications, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Four-dimensional (4-D) trajectory planning with conflict-free for a large-scale
number of aircraft under meteorological influence is an essential problem in air traffic control …

Towards conformal automation in air traffic control: Learning conflict resolution strategies through behavior cloning

Y Guleria, DT Pham, S Alam, PN Tran… - Advanced Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
A critical factor in achieving conformity of automation tools in performing expert tasks, such
as air traffic conflict resolution, is the identification of air traffic controllers'(ATCOs') …

[HTML][HTML] Locally generalised multi-agent reinforcement learning for demand and capacity balancing with customised neural networks

C Yutong, HU Minghua, XU Yan, Y Lei - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2023 - Elsevier
Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques are being studied to solve the Demand and
Capacity Balancing (DCB) problems to fully exploit their computational performance. A …

Improving Algorithm Conflict Resolution Manoeuvres with Reinforcement Learning

M Ribeiro, J Ellerbroek, J Hoekstra - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
Future high traffic densities with drone operations are expected to exceed the number of
aircraft that current air traffic control procedures can control simultaneously. Despite …