Aircraft Separation Assurance Using Implicit Maneuver Coordination: Issues and Potential Solutions

In earlier research projects, the depiction of airspace in which a loss of separation is predicted to occur has been explored as a means to increase conflict awareness. The computation of the conflict space is based on the current state of traffic and ownship. If the traffic maneuvers, the location and extent of the conflict space will change...

Solving the Plan Coordination Problem

In this thesis we focus on implicit coordination for multi-agent planning problems. In such problems, agents are not able or willing to cooperate with each other and hence we need to perform pre-planning coordination in order to ensure that merging all their plans always results in a feasible joint plan. More specifically, we are interested in...