Abstract:This paper explores scalable coordination strategies for urban air mobility (UAM) corridors by comparing two representative approaches. The first, inspired by visual flight rules (VFR), is a local coordination strategy relying on spatial information available to each vehicle. The second, conceptually aligned with digital flight rules (DFR), is a global coordination strategy based on shared estimated times of arrival (ETAs) at constrained waypoints (CWPs). To support this comparison, we introduce a lightweight disturbance-avoidance mechanism that enables vehicles to adjust their ETAs in response to forecasted disruptions using shared information. We evaluate these approaches through numerical simulations under varying disturbance levels, comparing the locally reactive VFR-style scheme with the globally coordinated DFR-style scheme. Results show that VFR achieves high throughput in low-traffic scenarios but becomes increasingly prone to collisions at higher traffic densities unless conservative separation is enforced, which reduces traffic efficiency. In contrast, DFR maintains more consistent safety performance and traffic efficiency, even under moderate ETA update propagation delays. These findings highlight the advantages of DFR-style global coordination in managing high-density air traffic control (ATC) operations within UAM corridors.
| Subjects: | Systems and Control (eess.SY) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.23343 [eess.SY] |
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| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.23343 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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| Journal reference: | Proceedings of the AIAA SciTech 2026 Forum, January 2026 |
| Related DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2026-1374
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From: Sasinee Pruekprasert [view email]
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