Yaguchi, Yuichi (University of Aizu), Wakazono, Takuya (University of Aizu)

Flight Plan Management System for Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles Using Blockchain

Scheduled for presentation during the Poster Session "Poster Papers Session" (FrPS), Friday, June 18, 2021, 10:15−10:30, Foyer, Mezzanine Level

2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 15-18, 2021, Athens, Greece

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 25, 2024

Abstract

Current unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) traffic management systems are almost exclusively centralized and require a large amount of network traffic and data storage because the estimated amount of data required in the future will be quite large and difficult to achieve. In this paper, we present a distributed autonomous flight plan management system for data and network traffic regionalization in each UAV. Our approach is applied to blockchain technology for reservation systems, octree for airspace indexing, and probabilistic road maps with an A* algorithm for the replanning system. We evaluated this system by load testing based on future estimates and the results demonstrate that our approach is capable of handling estimated future flight plans.