Due to the rapid development of technologies for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS’s), the supply and demand market for sUAS’s is expanding globally. With the great number of sUAS’s ready to fly in civilian airspace, an sUAS aircraft traffic management system that can guarantee the safe and efficient operation of sUAS’s is still absent. In this paper, we propose a control protocol design and analysis method for sUAS traffic management (UTM) which can safely manage a large number of sUAS’s. The benefits of our approach are two-fold: at management level, the effort for monitoring sUAS traffic (authorities) and control/planning for each sUAS (operator/pilot) are both greatly reduced under our framework; and at operational level, the behavior of individual sUAS is guaranteed to follow the restrictions. Mathematical proofs and numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the proposed method.

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无人机系统交通管理控制协议设计与分析


由于小型无人机系统（sUAS）技术的快速发展，sUAS的供需市场正在全球范围内扩大。随着大量小型无人机在民用空域的飞行准备，目前仍缺乏能够保证小型无人机安全、高效运行的小型无人机飞行器交通管理系统。在本文中，我们提出了一种小型无人机交通管理（UTM）的控制协议设计和分析方法，可以安全地管理大量小型无人机。我们的方法有两个好处：在管理层面，在我们的框架下，监控小型无人机交通（当局）和控制/规划每个小型无人机（操作员/飞行员）的工作量都大大减少；在操作层面，保证单个小型无人机的行为遵循限制。数学证明和数值模拟证明了所提出的方法。