Negotiation-Based Approach to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

We present a framework for agent based aircraft deconfliction mechanism to enable efficient airspace use by various UAVs during coalition operations. In our approach, each vehicle is autonomous, but cooperative: it actively shares its flight plan with near aircrafts so that potential collisions can be detected and resolved using norm-based system. Non-cooperative and utility-based deconfliction approaches are also discussed as they offer a possibility to achieve more efficient and robust mechanism in the future. System is validated on multi-agent simulation that uses the public online-accessible data from various information sources.