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New Challenges for Urban Air Mobility Systems: Aerial Cooperative Vehicles

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Intelligent Distributed Computing XIV (IDC 2021)

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In recent years, attention has been devoted to Urban Air Mobility (UAM) systems, based on autonomous and cooperative aircraft development as well as on some basic airspace architectures – included air corridors enabling safe procedures and operation, particularly separations among aerial vehicles. In this context, each aerial vehicle would represent an “intelligent” entity that must be provided with suitable computational, sensing and communication capabilities to cooperate with other similar entities. To this purpose, data coming from both the infrastructure and the other aerial vehicles would be autonomously processed by each entity and compared with the current location and the planned destination in order to complete the trip efficiently and safely. Moreover, communication network such as Multi-Group Ad-Hoc Network, would ensure connection and cooperation among Aerial Cooperative Vehicles, also supported by algorithms and software, which will compute and manage flight path in real time to avoid collisions.

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  1. DICAM, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Chiara Caterina Ditta & Maria Nadia Postorino

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  1. Computer Systems Engineering Department, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    David Camacho

  2. DIIES Department, University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

    Domenico Rosaci

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Giuseppe M. L. Sarné

  4. DICEAM Department, University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

    Mario Versaci

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Ditta, C.C., Postorino, M.N. (2022). New Challenges for Urban Air Mobility Systems: Aerial Cooperative Vehicles. In: Camacho, D., Rosaci, D., Sarné, G.M.L., Versaci, M. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XIV. IDC 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1026. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96627-0_13

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