Cooperative conflict detection and resolution and safety assessment for 6G enabled unmanned aerial vehicles
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Li, S., Cheng, X., Huang, X., Otaibi, S. and Wang, H. 2023. Cooperative conflict detection and resolution and safety assessment for 6G enabled unmanned aerial vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24 (2), pp. 2183-2198. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2021.3137458
Type | Article |
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Title | Cooperative conflict detection and resolution and safety assessment for 6G enabled unmanned aerial vehicles |
Authors | Li, S., Cheng, X., Huang, X., Otaibi, S. and Wang, H. |
Abstract | The increasing number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the low-altitude airspace and the increasing complexity of the work environment present new challenges for ensuring airspace security, especially the effective conflict detection and resolution (CD&R) of UAVs. In the era of the sixth generation (6G) technology, there is an improvement in communication speed and capacity in comparison with the traditional communication technologies, which contributes to forming a UAV Internet of Things (IoTs) through remote intelligent control platform and improve the effect of CD&R. In this paper, we innovatively develop a cooperative CD&R method in the UAV IoT environment considering UAV relative motion relationships and UAV priorities. Using this method in 6G environment, the real-time and reactive conflict-free paths for UAVs can be generated. The developed method has the advantage of smaller calculation and needs fewer UAVs to take maneuvers than the CD&R methods based on traditional Artificial Potential Field (APF). To verify the effectiveness of CD&R methods, a safety assessment method (evaluate from both conflict feature and network structure perspectives) is also proposed. A Monte Carlo Simulation with ``clone mechanism'' is designed to incorporate the effect of CD&R systems. Three cases of distributed CD&R protocols are simulated and compared. The simulations with different parameter settings are also discussed. Quantitative simulation experiments show that the safety effect of CD&R proposed in this paper is improved a lot due to the improved APF and the UAV priority determination. Meanwhile, the safety assessment method is demonstrated to be feasible for evaluating the safety of CD&R systems. |
Keywords | Autonomous aerial vehicles; Safety; Force; 6G mobile communication; Heuristic algorithms; Collision avoidance; Atmospheric modeling; Unmanned aerial vehicle; 6G; conflict detection and resolution; safety assessment; simulation |
Publisher | IEEE |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems |
ISSN | 1524-9050 |
Electronic | 1558-0016 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 04 Jan 2022 |
08 Feb 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 23 May 2022 |
Submitted | 22 Sep 2021 |
Accepted | 14 Dec 2021 |
Output status | Published |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2021.3137458 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000795618200001 |
Language | English |
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