Air Traffic Management

This project is designed to simulate an airspace of drones. The airspace is represented by coordinates [x,y,z] with no limit on values.

Assumptions:

• Drones travel with constant velocity
• Drones are able to stop for an indefinite amount of time
• Drones are modeled as particles

Protocols

To manage the airspace a number of protocols are used:

• Drones cannot move vertically unless taking off and landing
• Drones which are taking off and landing cannot move horizontally
• Drones moving horizontally must fly at designated height according to heading (similar to Visual Flight Rules used in aviation)

Instructions

To run the program:

• Create and environment using the SimPy library
• Create an instance of an airspace (takes the environment as a parameter)
• Create instances of drones, Drone(speed,start_coord,end_coord,airspace,ID). This adds them to the airspace
• Run the environment for chosen amount of time

An example can be found in RunAirspace File