Improved Safety with a Distributed Routing Strategy for UAVs

Abstract

This paper presents a routing strategy for UAVs that can be applied in conjunction with lower level collision avoidance methods. The strategy allows individual UAVs to route themselves in 2D space in order to avoid areas of high-density traffic. The proposed approach is explored in simulation. The results demonstrate a safer system operation when the routing strategy is used, compared with just a simple collision avoidance method.