Navigation Path Planning and Flight Rules in Simulated Air Corridors for Urban Air Mobility

A framework is presented for simulating and controlling multiple urban air mobility vehicles in air corridors with real-time vehicle-to-vehicle communication. We use a framework developed in MATLAB, interfaced with X-Plane flight simulation software, to develop strategies to adapt to changing air traffic as well as environmental conditions, ensuring safe and efficient flight operations. Simulation of multiple vehicles within an air corridor enable evaluation of the effectiveness of various approaches in generating optimal navigation paths and collision avoidance for the simulated traffic in an air corridor. An example of how this framework can be utilized to evaluate an overtaking aircraft collision avoidance strategy is presented along with the control method used for the collision avoidance.