A method of collision warning using broad antenna pattern ultra-wide band (UWB) radar includes emitting a first radar ping from a broad beam UWB antenna and receiving a first return signal identifying an object. A first hemisphere with a first radius is determined for the object. A second ping, second return and second hemisphere is defined for the object. At the intersection of the hemispheres, an object ring is defined. The radius of the object ring is compared with the radius of a collision cylinder (e.g., representing a safe distance around a system or device, such as a drone). The object may be identified as posing a collision threat when the radius of the object ring is smaller than the radius of the collision cylinder.

Provided is a method of avoiding collision of an unmanned aerial vehicle with an obstacle, the method including: calculating two potential fields using ament positional information of the unmanned aerial vehicle, a target point that is set, and positional information of the obstacle measured by a sensor, computing an attractive force and a repulsive force by differentiating the computed potential fields, respectively; computing a direction of a potential force that results from adding up the computed attractive force and repulsive force; and performing control that brings about a change from the computed direction of the potential force to a direction in which the unmanned aerial vehicle moves.

A device for managing air traffic, in an airspace includes a reference aircraft and at least one other aircraft, the device receiving a three-dimensional representation of the airspace at a time when an air conflict is detected between the reference aircraft and the at least one other aircraft, the device comprising an airspace-encoding unit configured to determine a reduced-dimension representation of the airspace by applying a recurrent autoencoder to the three-dimensional representation of the airspace at the air-conflict detection time; a decision-assisting unit configured to determine a conflict-resolution action to be implemented by the reference aircraft, the decision-assisting unit implementing a deep-reinforcement-learning algorithm to determine the action on the basis of the reduced-dimension representation of the airspace, of information relating to the reference aircraft and/or the at least one other aircraft, and of a geometry corresponding to the air conflict.

Systems and methods for trajectory planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle. A mission specification for fulfillment by an unmanned aerial vehicle is received. The mission specification identifies a waypoint, an optimization criterion, and information identifying the unmanned aerial vehicle. It is determined whether candidate flight trajectories are available. Maneuvers from a motions library that defines available maneuvers are modeled to identify candidate flight trajectories to the waypoint which satisfy a restriction condition and do not conflict with a flight plan for another aerial vehicle. If candidate flight trajectories are available, desired flight trajectories are selected. A mission approval is submitted to a receiving party.

An embodiment method for controlling operation of an aerial vehicle in an aerial vehicle control system includes approving entry of the aerial vehicle into an aerial vehicle operation zone from a take-off and landing facility of a departure location built into the aerial vehicle control system, controlling an operation of the aerial vehicle in the aerial vehicle operation zone, and approving exit of the aerial vehicle from the aerial vehicle operation zone into a take-off and landing facility of a destination location.

Disclosed are an anti-collision system and method for an aircraft and an aircraft including the anti-collision system. The anti-collision system includes: a sensor data processing unit configured to process data received from a plurality of sensors to detect objects around the aircraft, and output a result about detected objects; a safeguarding box building unit configured to generate, based on an aircraft geometry database, a three-dimensional safeguarding box for the aircraft; and a risk assessment unit configured to calculate relative distances between detected objects and the aircraft, and determine whether there is a collision risk between the aircraft and an object, among the detected objects, located in the safeguarding box or to be entering into the safeguarding box, wherein the system is configured to output an alarm or a warning when there is the collision risk.

A traffic information processing equipment, system and method. The traffic information processing equipment includes an image recognition and decision device and a warning device. The image recognition and decision device is configured to process a received traffic route image to identify a scene, and determine whether to perform a warning operation according to the scene to obtain a determination result. The warning device is configured to generate warning information according to the determination result for sending prompt information to vehicles in a traffic route.

A UAV delivery control system is disclosed. Sensors detect operation parameters associated with the UAV as the UAV maneuvers along an airborne delivery route. A UAV operation controller monitors UAV route parameters as the UAV maneuvers along the airborne delivery route. The UAV route parameters are indicative as to a current environment of the airborne delivery route that the UAV is encountering. The UAV operation controller automatically adjusts the operation of the UAV to maintain the operation of the UAV within an operation threshold based on the operation parameters and the UAV route parameters. The operation threshold is the operation of the UAV that is maintained within an overall airborne operation radius of the UAV from a return destination thereby enabling the UAV to execute the delivery of the package along the airborne delivery route and to return to the return destination.

Devices and methods implemented by a computer for connecting between a human-machine interface (e.g. graphical), supplied with data, in particular traffic and meteorology data, and a system for computing paths (e.g. avionic flight management), for interactive exploration of usable flight paths for managing the spatial congestion around the path of a vehicle are provided. Developments describe the particular case of an aircraft, such as mission management, the gathering of spatial, temporal or technical constraints relating to the spatial congestion within the determined potential airspace, the monitoring of changes in the spatial congestion of the airspace, excursions of the aircraft, miscellaneous displays, and n particular superimposed displays. Various types of human-machine interfaces are described, involving virtual or augmented reality and being configured to display data in 2D, 3D and/or 4D.

A method and a device for determining emergency trajectories. A method and a device for operating an automated vehicle are also described.