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Formal Verification of Curved Flight Collision Avoidance Maneuvers: A Case Study

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FM 2009: Formal Methods (FM 2009)

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Aircraft collision avoidance maneuvers are important and complex applications. Curved flight exhibits nontrivial continuous behavior. In combination with the control choices during air traffic maneuvers, this yields hybrid systems with challenging interactions of discrete and continuous dynamics. As a case study illustrating the use of a new proof assistant for a logic for nonlinear hybrid systems, we analyze collision freedom of roundabout maneuvers in air traffic control, where appropriate curved flight, good timing, and compatible maneuvering are crucial for guaranteeing safe spatial separation of aircraft throughout their flight. We show that formal verification of hybrid systems can scale to curved flight maneuvers required in aircraft control applications. We introduce a fully flyable variant of the roundabout collision avoidance maneuver and verify safety properties by compositional verification.

This research was supported by DFG SFB/TR 14 AVACS, NASA NNG05GF84H, Berkman Faculty Award, CMU-GM CRL GM9100096UMA, NSF CCR-0411152, CCF-0429120, CCF-0541245, SRC 2008TJ1860, and AFRO 18727S3.

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Platzer, A., Clarke, E.M. (2009). Formal Verification of Curved Flight Collision Avoidance Maneuvers: A Case Study. In: Cavalcanti, A., Dams, D.R. (eds) FM 2009: Formal Methods. FM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5850. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05089-3_35

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