RL-based Scheduling of an AAM Traffic Network

Arinc Tutku Altun; Yan Xu; Gokhan Inalhan; Michael W. Hardt

doi:10.1109/CAI54212.2023.00045

RL-based Scheduling of an AAM Traffic Network

Arinc Tutku Altun^*
, Yan Xu
, Gokhan Inalhan
, Michael W. Hardt

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Aerospace
Cranfield University
Boeing Research and Technology
Boeing

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Abstract

This study presents an approach for pre-flight planning process to be used in the future Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) system especially after contingency situations and relevant activities take place. The methodology for scheduling is modeled as a reinforcement learning (RL) agent that resolves potential conflicts for the traffic and balances the demand and capacity at vertiports. The reason behind to use RL is that specific problem requires a very quick response since it also deals with resolving conflicts that are observed between the flights that are about to take-off and the contingent flights that diverted for an emergency landing. The main objective of this work is to develop a pre-flight planning service to work compatible with contingency management activities for enhancing the contingency management process for the AAM system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2023
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	87-88
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350339840
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CAI54212.2023.00045
Publication status	Published - 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2023 - Santa Clara, United States Duration: 5 Jun 2023 → 6 Jun 2023

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Name	Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2023

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Conference	2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2023
Country/Territory	United States
City	Santa Clara
Period	5/06/23 → 6/06/23

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Keywords

AAM
UTM
contingency management
demand capacity balancing
potential conflict resolution
pre-flight planning
reinforcement learning

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Altun, AT, Xu, Y, Inalhan, G & Hardt, MW 2023, RL-based Scheduling of an AAM Traffic Network. in Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2023. Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 87-88, 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2023, Santa Clara, United States, 5/06/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/CAI54212.2023.00045

RL-based Scheduling of an AAM Traffic Network. / Altun, Arinc Tutku; Xu, Yan; Inalhan, Gokhan et al.
Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. p. 87-88 (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2023).

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